02484nam 2200589Ia 450 991045437850332120200520144314.00-292-79466-5(CKB)1000000000533866(OCoLC)567995488(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245816(SSID)ssj0000141690(PQKBManifestationID)11157782(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141690(PQKBWorkID)10090333(PQKB)10893407(MiAaPQ)EBC3443324(OCoLC)234183846(MdBmJHUP)muse2339(Au-PeEL)EBL3443324(CaPaEBR)ebr10245816(EXLCZ)99100000000053386620070416d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDrugs, thugs, and divas[electronic resource] telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America /by O. Hugo Benavides1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20081 online resource (246 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-71450-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Drugs in motion picturesMotion picturesLatin AmericaTelevision soap operasLatin AmericaElectronic books.Drugs in motion pictures.Motion picturesTelevision soap operas791.45/6Benavides O. Hugo(Oswald Hugo),1968-896748MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454378503321Drugs, thugs, and divas2458510UNINA