Illustrations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Cantinflismo and Relajo’s Peripheral Vision 22
7. 2. The Call of the Screen: Niní Marshall and the Radiophonic Stardom of Argentine Cinema 68
8. 3. Timing Is Everything: Sandrini’s Stutter and the Representability of Time 111
9. 4. Fictions of the Real: The Currency of the Brazilian Chanchada 153
10. 5. Comedy Circulates Circuitously: Toward an Odographic Film History of Latin America 192
11. Notes 235
12. Selected Bibliography 263
13. Index 273