{"product_id":"film-comedy-and-spain-humour-genre-and-the-nation-1970-2020-9781839542329","title":"Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew Hilborn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Legenda\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Legenda\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat's so funny about Spanish cinema? Throughout the past half-century, film comedies have flourished across Spain, breaking box-office records by reflecting, praising, or scoffing at the fragile transition from Francoist dictatorship to present-day democracy. But how, exactly, does the nation find itself funny onscreen? And, in this cathartic, self-deprecating humour, what ghosts are exorcised, what anxieties released? In this wide-ranging and lively study, Matthew Hilborn reclaims comedy as politically influential, showing how filmmakers like Pedro Almod�var, Bigas Luna, Santiago Segura, �lex de la Iglesia, Emilio Mart�nez-L�zaro, and Javier Ruiz Caldera continually reimagine 'Spanishness' amid political contradiction and compromise. How Spain sniggers becomes a vital sign of change, exposing what's really tickling the nation's fancy - or getting under its skin - at key turning-points in recent history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Hilborn is Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Spanish Studies and Film Studies at University College Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46319529197719,"sku":"9781839542329","price":10702.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781839542329.webp?v=1768683975","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/film-comedy-and-spain-humour-genre-and-the-nation-1970-2020-9781839542329","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}