Popular spanish film under franco: comedy and the weakening of the state

Upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying Spanish Cinema, Spanish Cultural History, European Film

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Comedy and the Weakening of the State Tactics and Thresholds in Edgar Neville's Life on a Thread (1945) Metropolitan Masquerades: The Destabilization of Madrid in the Neville Trilogy Populism, the NationalPopular and the Politics of Luis García Berlanga: Welcome Mister Marshall! (1952) Humor and Hegemony: Berlanga, the State and the Family in Plácido (1961) and The Executioner (1963) 'Making Do' or the Logic of the Ersatz Economy in the Spanish Films of Marco Ferreri The Pueblo Travestied in Fernando Fernán Gómez's The Strange Journey (1964) Conclusion: Gila's Telephone Notes Bibliography Filmography Index