Search Results for comedy

... repository, but how do we hear—and listen to—voices from the past? As a genre of speech performance, aural (or acousmatic) comedy can offer historians tremendous insights into the past and can pose tremendous challenges of translation and analysis. Given Michel Chion's definition of acousmatic as “sound...

... in formulating irrigation policy today. His central argument—expressed in the comedy and tragedy of the book’s title—contrasts the selfishness and greed of individuals (tragedy) with social action for a mutually beneficial purpose (comedy) and concludes that the social and ethical bases for irrigation...

... the government, they remained severely under-capitalized. 10 But if the domestic film industry faced adverse economic conditions, other factors favored its growth. Local film producers benefited from the long tradition of popular theater in Argentina, particularly the short musical comedy known...

... dreams but rather a battleground where competing factions sought to impose their will. By the early 1940s, the defiant populists had won, prefiguring and providing the cultural points of reference for their ensuing political rise. A comparison of Hollywood screwball comedies of the 1930s...

... include close analysis of issues as diverse as the roots of positivist authoritarianism in Rio Grande do Sul and representations of Vargas in screwball comedies of the 1940s. Jens Hentschke’s excellent introduction ably brings them together, exploring their implications for revised understandings...

... Alfonso Prudencio Claure—a shrewd journalist with a good knowledge of history—believes that Bolivia’s past is nearly unmatched by any other country. He also thinks that the last ten years in Bolivia represent a perfect national comedy, also unmatched. In the La Paz newspaper Presencia he has a column...

..., notably those of Verdi, but the Spanish zarzuela , or short musical skit, appeared to compete successfully with both Italian and French offerings. Romanticism was rated as passé and its melodrama was yielding to realistic comedies of manners imported from France and Spain. Mexican playwrights tended...

... is the discussion of theater as a means of familiarizing the masses with popular authors. Leal shows that the works of Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Agustín Moreto, and Agustín Salazar y Torres were regularly performed throughout Venezuela before various audiences. Most of these plays, however, were comedies...

... condenado por desconfiado , respectively) as examples of their work. Ruiz Ramón devotes six pages to Tirso’s Biblical dramas, which he censures, and practically nothing to Tirso’s comedies, which are among his best works. Ruiz Ramón might have given less space to Argensola, an “abominable” playwright (p...

... comedies and religious allegories. Brief attention is given her courtly and love poems while the villancicos (Christmas carols), often skillfully and wittily presenting the humbler elements of Mexican society, are dismissed as “not poetry.” Numerous pages are devoted to the generally accepted belief...

... of Perón. Third, this material explains the apparent tragi-comedy of General Arturo Rawson on becoming the first president after the June 4 coup. The documents insist that this occurred because the GOU’s candidate, Minister of War General Pedro Ramírez, was not at first willing to assume the presidency...

... Press 1971 The volume under review is a re-edition of a book published originally in 1929 under the same title. A brief prologue by the Argentine dramatist and critic, Edmundo Guibourg, has been added to the present edition. The study resembles a catalogue of the dramas and comedies presented...

... (Philadelphia, 1931), Rousseau in the Spanish World (Austin, 1938), Contemporary Spanish American Fiction (Chapel Hill, 1944), and his editions of comedies of Eusebio Vela (in collaboration with Francisco Monterde) and of the several novels of Lizardi, are standard works. The present book gathers...

... of Machado’s fiction is its superlative comedy, generated through irony, parody, satire, wit, and humor. She indicates that the titles of his novels are resumes, as it were, of the works and that the strands of symbolism weave in and out among the elements. She builds up a good case in identifying Carmo...

... to the content and context of El jefe (1958), La fiaca (1968), La Patagonia rebelde (1974), Plata dulce (1982), and La noche de los lápices (1986), as well as a few picaresque comedies and police thrillers. The next two essays (coauthored with Jorge M. López) fall under the title “Intervalo.” Each...

.... Alexander is at his best recalling historical curiosities: the “elements of comedy” in the RADEPA coup of 1942 (p. 71); a tale of the young Juan Lechín at the mines (pp. 72-73); Víctor Paz Estenssoro’s observation on Germán Busch’s suicide (p. 68). He disagrees with the interpretation that the MNR agrarian...

... vanity. Pío Baroja, a fellow Basque, speaks harshly of Unamuno in his Memorias . Probably the sharpest criticism is to be found in an essay by the hard-headed Aragonese Ramón Sender. Sender placed Unamuno at the bottom of the “group of ’98,” calling him an absurd figure of comedy and denying that he had...

... neglected in Brazil. Part I, divided into eleven chapters, deals with the rise of musical comedies, concentrated in Rio since the late nineteenth century, and reviews the careers and contributions to the genre of the best known composers, from Freire Júnior and José Francisco de Freitas to Ari Barroso...

... landscape. Considering the advent of sound films during the 1930s, Federico Dávalos Orozco discusses the work of several early Mexican directors. Particularly notable during this period was the emergence of a “nationalist” aesthetic as seen in various ranchera musical comedies as well as an assortment...

... for Independence Timothy J. Henderson generously seasons his retelling of this familiar tale with interesting, often enlightening anecdotes that reflect the influence of the new cultural history. Take for example his depiction of Father Miguel Hidalgo’s revolt as a Keystone Cops comedy of errors, or his...