Spanish Laughter - Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Latin American and Spanish History
Release date:	June 2022
Editors:	Antonio Calvo Maturana
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	390
ISBN-13:	978-1-80073-499-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-80073-499-9
Barcode:	9781800734999

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