Latin American melodrama passion, pathos, and entertainment / edited and with an introduction by Darlene J. Sadlier.
| Other author | Sadlier, Darlene J. (Darlene Joy) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, |
| Description | 183 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Melodrama of the spirited woman : Aventurera / Gilberto Perez -- Melodrama and the emergence of Venezuelan cinema / Luisela Alvaray -- The building of a nation : La guerra gaucha as historical melodrama / Paula Félix-Didier and Andrés Levinson -- Women as civilizers in 1940s Brazilian cinema : between passion and the nation / Cid Vasconcelos -- The humiliation of the father : melodrama and Cinema Novo's critigue of conservative modernization / Ismail Xavier -- Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Cinema de lágrimas / Darlene J. Sadlier -- Luis Alcoriza; or, a certain antimelodramatic tendency in Mexican cinema / Marvin D'Lugo -- Weeping reality : melodramatic imagination in contemporary Brazilian documentary / Mariana Baltar -- Televisual melodrama in an era of transnational migration : exporting the folkloric nation, harvesting the melancholic-sublime / Catherine L. Benamou. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009009435 |
| ISBN | 9780252034640 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0252034643 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780252076558 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0252076559 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |