Dark Laughter: Spanish Film, Comedy, and the Nation

Contents

vii List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 3 1 Familiar Questions 7 2 Movement and Paralysis, Dissidence and Identity: Ferreri’s El cochecito 30 3 Complicity Dissected: Berlanga’s El verdugo 49 4 Don Jaime’s Laughter: Humor and Perversion in Viridiana 66 5 Modernizing Desire: Fernán-Gómez’s El extraño viaje 86 6 Almodóvar Interlude: Transitional Laughter 110 7 Back with a Vengeance: Laughing Darkly in Post-1992 Spain 135 Afterlaughter 157 Notes 159 Bibliography 171 Index 179 Contents ...