Latin American Melodrama Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment

Name: Latin American Melodrama Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment
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ISBN: 9780252034640

ISBN-10: 0252034643

ISBN-13: 9780252034640

Edition: 2009

Authors: Darlene J. Sadlier, Darlene J. Sadlier

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Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama. An introductory essay examines current critical and theoretical debates on melodrama and places the…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/18/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

DARLENE J. SADLIER, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at Indiana University, is author of The Question of How: Women Writers and New Portuguese Literature.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Short History of Film Melodrama in Latin America




Melodrama of the Spirited Woman: Aventurera




Melodrama and the Emergence of Venezuelan Cinema




The Building of a Nation: La guerra gaucha as Historical Melodrama




Women as Civilizers in 1940s Brazilian Cinema: Between Passion and the Nation




The Humiliation of the Father: Melodrama and Cinema Novo's Critique of Conservative Modernization




Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Cinema de lï¿½grimas




Luis Alcoriza; or, A Certain Antimelodramatic Tendency in Mexican Cinema




Weeping Reality: Melodramatic Imagination in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary




Televisual Melodrama in an Era of Transnational Migration: Exporting the Folkloric Nation, Harvesting the Melancholic-Sublime



Contributors


Index of Names and Titles