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 InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press,
Description183 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009009435
ISBN9780252034640 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252034643 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252076558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0252076559 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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