Latin American melodrama : passion, pathos, and entertainment /
Latin American melodrama : passion, pathos, and entertainment /
edited and with an introduction by Darlene J. Sadlier.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
- 183 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Felix-Didier and Andres 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 lagrimas / 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.
9780252034640 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252034643 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252076558 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252076559 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009009435
GBA983896 bnb
015356663 Uk
Motion pictures--Latin America.
PN 1993.5 / L357 2009
791.43/098
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Felix-Didier and Andres 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 lagrimas / 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.
9780252034640 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252034643 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252076558 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252076559 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009009435
GBA983896 bnb
015356663 Uk
Motion pictures--Latin America.
PN 1993.5 / L357 2009
791.43/098