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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252034640 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252034643 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252076558 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252076559 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009009435 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA983896  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015356663  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--Latin America.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1993.5  / L357 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/098