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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454378503321

Autore

Benavides O. Hugo (Oswald Hugo), <1968->

Titolo

Drugs, thugs, and divas [[electronic resource] ] : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / / by O. Hugo Benavides

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008

ISBN

0-292-79466-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

791.45/6

Soggetti

Drugs in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Latin America

Television soap operas - Latin America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Melodrama as ambiguous signifier: latin american telenovelas and Narco-dramas -- Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic unveiling of colonial desire -- Producing the global west through latin tales of seduction and enby -- Karen's seduction: the racial politics of appropriate dinner guests -- A mother's wrath and the complex disjuncturing of class -- Being narco: the evolution of a continental sensibility -- Saintly figures and icons: the migration of a continental dream -- La reina del sur: Gender, racial, and national contestations of regional identity -- Sex, drugs, and cumbia: the hybrid nature of culture -- Conclusion: the postcolonial politics of melodrama -- Ugly Betty.