TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sadlier,Darlene J.
TI  - Latin American melodrama: passion, pathos, and entertainment 
SN  - 9780252034640 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1993.5 L357 2009
U1  - 791.43/098 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Latin America
N1  - 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
ER  -