Humor in Latin American cinema / edited by Juan Poblete and Juana Suárez.

Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex.

Luis Sandrini's stutter, early Argentine film comedy and the representability of time / by Nilo Fernando Couret -- "Comrades, there are moments in life that are truly momentary": Cantinflas and the administration of public matters / by Gareth Williams -- The laugh of Nina Marshall: comic performance and gender performativity in Argentinean classical cinema / by Paula Inés Laguarda -- The early comedies of Tomás Gutierrez Alea / by Dianne Marting -- Backwardness and modernity in the rural tradition of Mazzaropi comedies / by Mauricio de Bragana -- Enrique Cahen Salaberry and Hugo Sofovich: contrasting directors and strategies of humor in films featuring Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel / by Fernando Pagnoni -- Colombian popular comedy for dummies: the Nieto Roa and Dago Garcia producciones formula / by Juana Suárez -- Invasion of the nacos! mocking social prejudice in contemporary Mexican cinema / by Hector Fernandez l'Hoeste -- Humorous affects: romantic comedies in contemporary Mexico / by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado -- Who's laughing now? indigenous media and the politics of humor / by Freya Schiwy -- A sense of humor and society in three Chilean comedies: Taxi para tres, Sexo con amor, and Super, todo Chile adentro / by Juan Poblete.