Sounding Funny - Sound and Comedy Cinema - Mark Evans

Sounding Funny - Sound and Comedy Cinema - Mark Evans

Spanish film music in the 1940s: Comedy, subversion, and dissident rhythms in the films of Manuel Parada

Sounding Funny - Sound and Comedy Cinema - Mark Evans

Laura Miranda Gonzalez [+-]
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Laura Miranda received her PhD in December 2011 for her dissertation, Manuel Parada and Spanish film music during the Franco regime: analytical study. She has published in the journals Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana, Revista de Musicología and MSMI, and has collaborated on the book Cine de cruzada en España: creación musical cinematográfica para un imperio (IICMU, 2011). At present Dr Miranda’s area of research focuses on the audio-visual analysis of Spanish culture and society.

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This chapter addresses a particular era of Spanish film making, that of the 1940s, through a seldom-studied genre: comedy. For the public, comedy represented an escape from the difficult socio-economic environment of postwar Spain. Despite its presumed innocuousness, the genre’s relaxed and carefree scripts can be regarded as subversive in that they that showed a way of life far removed from the reality of everyday existence. Far from the cine de cruzada, literary adaptations or historical films; comedies represented, for the majority of Spaniards, a point of access to musical modernity, not only European but also North American, through stylised jazz rhythms (which were progressively introduced into comedies during the period of the Second Republic (1931-39).

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Gonzalez, Laura . Spanish film music in the 1940s: Comedy, subversion, and dissident rhythms in the films of Manuel Parada. Sounding Funny - Sound and Comedy Cinema. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 171-188 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781845536749. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24495. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.24495. Jan 2016

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