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

• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43098
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Latin America; National characteristics, Latin American
• Altri autori: SadlierDarlene J (Darlene Joy)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Latin American melodrama
• ISBN: 1-283-58288-0; 9786613895332; 0-252-09232-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785753003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II