From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage: The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film Stuart Green 9780708323434

This is the first book-length English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, now known as the 'Other' Generation of 27. In the same way that their contemporaries of the celebrated Generation of 27 (which included Federico Garcia Lorca) attempted a revolution of the arts through poetry inspired by European modernism, the 'Other' Generation of 27 attempted to renovate Spanish humour, first in prose, and then in the theatre and cinema. This book demonstrates how these humorists drew on the humour of Chaplin, Keaton, Lubitsch and the Marx Brothers for their stage comedy, and how they stretched the limits of the stage at the time by incorporating cinematic techniques, such as flashback, voice-overs and montage, in their search for new dramatic forms.

About the Author
Dr S.N. Green is Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Leeds.


Book Information
ISBN 9780708323434
Author Stuart Green
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint University of Wales Press
Publisher University of Wales Press
Series Iberian and Latin American Studies