Abstract
While stereotyping is central to cinematic comedy in terms of the representation of gender, race or class, it has frequently been treated in Hispanic film studies as an uncomplicated field (Kinder, 1993: 398; D’Lugo, 1991: 34). And just as it is indeed the case that the purpose of the stereotype is to simplify social relations, in what Homi K. Bhabha has termed an ‘arrested, fixated form of representation’ (1994: 75), in this chapter I would like to build on the work of previous commentators and to problematize the concept.
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Marsh, S. (2006). Metropolitan Masquerades: The Destabilization of Madrid in the Neville Trilogy. In: Popular Spanish Film under Franco. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511873_4
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