Screening songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema / edited by Lisa Shaw, Rob Stone ; [contributions by Ian Biddle [and others]]
"In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how – rather than simply helping to tell the story of – songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the...
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Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Singing of dubious desire: Imperio Argentina and Penelope Cruz as Nazi Germany's exotic Other / Ann Davies
- 2. Voicing gender: transgender performance and the national imaginary in the Spanish cinema of the democratic era / Ian Biddle and Santiago Fouz-Hernadez
- 3. Bien pagdí: popular song in the films of Pedro Almodovar / Eric M. Thau
- 4. El otro lado de la cama: remixed Transition (1973-1982) / Nuria Triana Toribio
- 5. On the function of punk aesthetics in Salto al vacáo and Historias del Kronen / Maria Pilar Rodriguez
- 6. Mobile soundscapes in the quinqui film / Tom Whittaker
- .7. Song-shaped cinema: the performance of Gypsy and Basque songs in relation to film form / Rob Stone
- 8. Travelling song: music, iteration and translation in La leyenda del tiempo / 9. Sound moves: immigration and music in Cosas que deje en La Habana / Isabel Santaolalla
- 9.The Afro-Cuban soundscape of Mexico City: authenticating spaces of violence and immorality in Salon Mexico and Victimas del pecado / David Garcia
- .11.Blues traveller: Habana blues and the framing of diasporic cubania / Susan Thomas
- 12. Dancing in the dark: Saura's Tango / Peter Williams Evans
- 13. Re-making Frida Kahlo through song in Frida / Deborh Shaw
- 14. 'Silence! Fado is about to be sung': fado and the comedia a portuguesa / Anthony De Melo
- 15. Sounds from Brazil: brasilidade and the rise of the music documentary / Tatiana Signorelli Heis
- .16. Soundtrack to roguery: music and malandragem in the city / Lorraine Lue
- 17.The Brazilian chanchada's musical moments and the performance of identity / Lisa Shaw
- 18.Orpheus in Babylon: music, myth and realism in the films of Rio de Janeiro / David Treece.