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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462380803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-58288-0

9786613895332

0-252-09232-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SadlierDarlene J (Darlene Joy)

Disciplina

791.43098

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Latin America

National characteristics, Latin American

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1940's 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 lágrimas / 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.