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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.Description: 183 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780252034640 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252034643 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252076558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252076559 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/098
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 L357 2009
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 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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.5 L357 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000076937

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.

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