Spanish Laughter
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Spanish Laughter

Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain

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Spanish Laughter

Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain

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Presenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book examines how humour entered public life, how it attained a legitimacy to communicate 'serious' ideas in the Enlightenment and how this set the seed for the key position that humor occupies in society today. Through a range of case studies that run from Goya's paintings, humor, and gender representations in radio programmes during the first Franco regime, developmentalist cinema of the sixties and seventies, to the transformation of female humor in social media, the book traces the core role that the comical has played in the public sphere. The contributors to this volume represent a wide range of disciplines including gender studies, humour studies and Hispanic studies and offer international perspectives on Spanish laughter.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781800735002
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Spanish Laughter
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. When Spaniards Defied Gravity
  6. Chapter 2. Disciplinary Humour in the Public Sphere
  7. Chapter 3. La vieja y la niña
  8. Chapter 4. When Women Are on Top
  9. Chapter 5. The Terrible and the Ridiculous in Goya’s Los Caprichos
  10. Chapter 6. Satire and Humour in Anti-Liberal Public Opinion in Cadiz during the Cortes (1811-13)
  11. Chapter 7. Humour, Gender and Nationalism
  12. Chapter 8. Humour in the Political Analysis of Absolutism in Mariano JosĂ© de Larra’s Articles (1828–33)
  13. Chapter 9. ‘Long Live the Joke’
  14. Chapter 10. Monochatus Non Est Pietas
  15. Chapter 11. Laughter, Gender and the Politics of Celebrity in Fin-de-SiĂšcle Spain
  16. Chapter 12. El Gran BvfĂłn
  17. Chapter 13. Artistic Parody, Political Criticism and Spanish Humour (c. 1900)
  18. Chapter 14. The ‘Moor’, the ‘Russian’ and Other Invaders
  19. Chapter 15. Smiling for the Homeland
  20. Chapter 16. The Developmentalist Cinema of the Sixties and Seventies
  21. Chapter 17. Sex, Truths and Viral Tapes
  22. Conclusions
  23. Index