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Latin American melodrama : passion, pathos, and entertainment / edited and with an introduction by Darlene J. Sadlier.

Sadlier, Darlene J. (Darlene Joy), (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780252034640 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0252034643 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780252076558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0252076559 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Copyright: ♭2009.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 Fľix-Didier and Andrš 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 lg̀rimas / 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.