Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: approaching performance in Spanish film

About this book

References

1 Acting for the camera in Spanish film magazines of the 1920s and 1930s

The panorama of cinema magazines

Stars and cameras: becoming and policing

Acting: magic versus science

Fotogenia

Exploitation is horribly delightful

Notes

References

2 Performance and gesture as crisis in La aldea maldita/The Cursed Village (Florián Rey, 1930)

Silent gesture in La aldea maldita (1930)

Gesture and crisis

Notes

References

3 Exaggeration and nation: the politics of performance in the Spanish sophisticated comedy of the 1940s

Introduction

Exaggerated performance styles: supporting actors and romantic leads

Media criticisms

Conclusion

Notes

References

4 The voice of comedy: Gracita Morales

Women and comedy

Funny women, funny voices

Gracita Morales and Spanish comic traditions

‘La chacha del cine español’

Performing femininity

Notes

References

5 The sounds of José Luis López Vázquez: vocal performance, gesture and technology in Spanish film

Polyphony and populism: vocal performance and post-synch sound

Disciplining the voice: vocalising ‘against type’

In synch: direct sound and vocal performance

Notes

References

6 The influence of Argentinian acting schools in Spain from the 1980s

Notes

References

7 Askance, athwart, aside: the queer plays of actors, auteurs and machines

Overacting in Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Fifth Floor Neighbour

Retracting acting: a theoretical bender

Underacting in The Holy Girl

Notes

References

8 The future of nostalgia: revindicating Spanish actors and acting in and through Cine de barrio

Towards a genealogy of Cine de barrio

Actors and audiences, then and now

Conclusion

Notes

References

9 Performing the nation: mannerism and mourning in Spanish heritage cinema

ImpersoNation

Haunting and mourning

Conclusion

Notes

References

10 Performing sex in Spanish erotic films of the 1980s

Notes

References

11 Becoming Mario: performance and persona adaptation in Mario Casas’s career

Casas the leaner

Casas the rock

Bridging the gap: Casas’s persona and the two Marios

Notes

References

12 Performing fatness: oversized male bodies in recent Spanish cinema

Santiago Segura and the Torrente saga

Javier Bardem in Los lunes al sol

Antonio de la Torre in Gordos/Fat People

Conclusion

Notes

References

13 Disabling Bardem’s body: the performance of disability and illness

Notes

References

14 Body doubles: the performance of Basqueness by Carmelo Gómez and Silvia Munt

Notes

References

15 Los amantes pasajeros/I’m So Excited! (2013): ‘performing’ la crisis

Back to the 1980s: a drawing room farce in the air

Politics and posturing

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index