Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Familiar Questions -- 2. Movement and Paralysis, Dissidence and Identity: Ferreri's El cochecito -- 3. Complicity Dissected: Berlanga's El verdugo -- 4. Don Jaime's Laughter: Humor and Perversion in Viridiana -- 5. Modernizing Desire: Fernán-Gómez's El extraño viaje -- 6. Almodóvar Interlude: Transitional Laughter -- 7. Back with a Vengeance: Laughing Darkly in Post- 1992 Spain -- Afterlaughter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.