‘Side-Splitting’: Spanish film comedy and questions of nationhood
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My PhD Did you hear the one about the native Brit who defined Spanish humour? Welcome to my thesis, completed in December 2021 at Durham University: ‘Side-Splitting: Humour and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1970-2020)’. Over 3½ years at Durham, funded by AHRC Northern Bridge, my project examined how popular film comedies have satirised […]
Echoes of Spanish cinema in my PhD fieldwork
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Flashes of scenery from the highway. The looming silhouette of a black bull against the blue sky. Flashes of scenery from a train. Arid scrub and seas of plastic greenhouses. I am abroad on PhD fieldwork, triangulating a research visit at the University of Alicante, visiting a friend in Madrid, then shadowing a Swiss colleague […]