From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage
The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2011
224 pages
978-1-78316-465-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book-length English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, now known as the 'Other' Generation of 27. In the same way that their contemporaries of the celebrated Generation of 27 (which included Federico Garcia Lorca) attempted a revolution of the arts through poetry inspired by European modernism, the 'Other' Generation of 27 attempted to renovate Spanish humour, first in prose, and then in the theatre and cinema. This book demonstrates how these humorists drew on the humour of Chaplin, Keaton, Lubitsch and the Marx Brothers for their stage comedy, and how they stretched the limits of the stage at the time by incorporating cinematic techniques, such as flashback, voice-overs and montage, in their search for new dramatic forms.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-78316-465-3 (9781783164653)
DOI
10.1234/b10398
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Stuart Green
From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage
The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film
Book
05/2011
University of Wales Press
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Dr S.N. Green is Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Leeds.
