Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle

While Cantinflas is a well-established Mexican cinema icon, the reasons for his great popularity might not be so easily grasped. For he embodies far more than the typical Mexico City underdog and witty rogue the audience usually identifies him with. A survey of his first period films will enable us...

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Main Author: Héctor Ruiz Rivas
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2012-06-01
Series:Caravelle
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/1216
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description While Cantinflas is a well-established Mexican cinema icon, the reasons for his great popularity might not be so easily grasped. For he embodies far more than the typical Mexico City underdog and witty rogue the audience usually identifies him with. A survey of his first period films will enable us to discover a thorough irreverent and devastating cinematographic machine that delves deep into the foundations of long-established Western values -including language-, from both a Latin-American and a universal outlook.
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Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle
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Mexico
Cantinflas
icon
subversion
cinema
title Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle
title_full Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle
title_fullStr Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle
title_full_unstemmed Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle
title_short Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle
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Cantinflas
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