Spanish Laughter : : Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain / / ed. by Antonio Calvo Maturana.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Alonso, Gregorio,; Blanco Fajardo, Sergio,; Burdiel, Isabel,; Butrón Prida, Gonzalo,; Calvo Maturana, Antonio,; Dolores Ramos, María,; Ferri Coll, José María,; Gamonal Torres, Miguel Ángel,; Jaffe, Catherine M.,; Junco, Manuel Á,; Kitts, Sally-Ann,; Lewis, Elizabeth Franklin,; Llinares Planells, Alejandro,; Maturana, Antonio Calvo,; Meléndez Malavé, Natalia,; Moscoso, Javier,; Núñez Seixas, Xosé M.,; Reyero, Carlos,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Latin American and Spanish History ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 When Spaniards Defied Gravity Humour, Seriousness and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain -- Chapter 2 Disciplinary Humour in the Public Sphere The Rhetoric of Gender Satire in José Clavijo y Fajardo’s El pensador -- Chapter 3 La vieja y la niña Women’s Humour in the Comedies of María Rosa Gálvez -- Chapter 4 When Women Are on Top Humour, Politics and Pornography in Goya’s Swings -- Chapter 5 The Terrible and the Ridiculous in Goya’s Los Caprichos -- Chapter 6 Satire and Humour in Anti-Liberal Public Opinion in Cadiz during the Cortes (1811–13) -- Chapter 7 Humour, Gender and Nationalism Female Quixotism and Heroine-ism in Early Nineteenth-Century Spain and Mexico -- Chapter 8 Humour in the Political Analysis of Absolutism in Mariano José de Larra’s Articles (1828–33) -- Chapter 9 ‘Long Live the Joke’ Political Satire and Humour through the Valencian Newspaper El Mole (1837) -- Chapter 10 Monochatus Non Est Pietas Anticlerical Humour and Political Violence (c. 1750–1840) -- Chapter 11 Laughter, Gender and the Politics of Celebrity in Fin-de-Siècle Spain -- Chapter 12 El Gran Bvfón Illustrated Magazines, Humourism and Caricature in Spain at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 13 Artistic Parody, Political Criticism and Spanish Humour (c. 1900) -- Chapter 14 The ‘Moor’, the ‘Russian’ and Other Invaders Some Notes on Humour and National Otherness in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) -- Chapter 15 Smiling for the Homeland Humour and Gender Representations in Radio Programmes during the First Franco Regime (1939–59) -- Chapter 16 The Developmentalist Cinema of the Sixties and Seventies Archetypes of Gender and Social Change in the Paleto and Destape Phenomena -- Chapter 17 Sex, Truths and Viral Tapes The Transformation of Spanish Female Humour in the Digital Age -- Conclusions -- Index