@inbook{2b579b5624f145a989f1e836ea06f0bc,
title = "Cantinflas and World Literature: Popular Cosmopolitanism and Comedic Adaptation in Mid-Century Cinema",
abstract = "This paper explores two adaptations of world literature starred by Mexican comedian Cantinflas: Los tres mosqueteros (1942) and Romeo y Julieta (1943). Comedic adaptation of world literature is essential for the development of cinema as an instrument of popular cosmopolitanism, which democratizes and massifies world literature in Mexico. From this angle, I argue for the idea of popular cosmopolitanism as a category to describe film industries where the project of the nation state engages world literature and world cinema. I also posit this term as a way to address gaps and limits in Miriam Hansen's idea of {"}vernacular modernism{"}.",
keywords = "adaptation, Cantinflas, Mexican cinema, popular cosmopolitanism, vernacular modernism",
author = "\{S{\'a}nchez Prado\}, \{Ignacio M.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 Koninklijke Brill BV, Leiden.",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1163/9789004732797\_00",
language = "English",
series = "Contemporary Cinema",
publisher = "Brill Rodopi",
pages = "87--102",
booktitle = "Contemporary Cinema",
}