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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969946703321

Titolo

Telenovelas / / edited by Ilan Stavans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Greenwood, , 2010

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023

ISBN

9798216024019

9781283056410

1283056410

9780313364938

0313364931

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 144 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ilan Stavans library of Latino civilization

Altri autori (Persone)

StavansIlan

Disciplina

791.45/6

Soggetti

Television soap operas - Social aspects - Latin America

Television soap operas - Latin America - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Panoramas -- pt. 2. Case studies.

Sommario/riassunto

Drama! Excess! Men in bee suits! Often erroneously compared to soap operas of the United States, outside of the necessary and sometimes fantastical dramatic story arc, however, the telenovela differs greatly from U.S. soap operas and have regional and cultural distinctions throughout Latin America. In Telenovelas, Ilan Stavans has gathered over two-dozen essays covering the telenovela for readers to better understand the phenomenon and its myriad layers.||Branching off from radionovelas, the telenovela was exported from pre-Castro Cuba during the 1950s. The essays found in Telenovelas covers a