Dark laughter : Spanish film, comedy, and the nation /
Juan F. Egea.
- Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
- Wisconsin film studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Familiar Questions -- 2. Movement and Paralysis, Dissidence and Identity: Ferreri's El cochecito -- 3. Complicity Dissected: Berlanga's El verdugo -- 4. Don Jaime's Laughter: Humor and Perversion in Viridiana -- 5. Modernizing Desire: Fernan-Gomez's El extrano viaje -- 6. Almodovar Interlude: Transitional Laughter -- 7. Back with a Vengeance: Laughing Darkly in Post-1992 Spain.
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Motion pictures, Spanish--History and criticism. Comedy films--History and criticism.--Spain Black humor--Spain. Black humor--Spain.