Latin American Melodrama Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment

Name: Latin American Melodrama Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment
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ISBN: 9780252076558

ISBN-10: 0252076559

ISBN-13: 9780252076558

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…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/18/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" 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.