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Latin American Melodrama : Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (194 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252092329
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Latin American MelodramaDDC classification:
  • 791.43/098
LOC classification:
  • PN1993
Online resources:
Contents:
front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Short History of Film Melodrama in Latin America -- 1. Melodrama of the Spirited Woman: Aventurera -- 2. Melodrama and the Emergence of Venezuelan Cinema -- 3. The Building of a Nation: La geurra gaucha as Historical Melodrama -- 4. Women as Civilizers in 1940s Brazilian Cinema: Between Passion and the Nation -- 5. The Humiliation of the Father: Melodrama and Cinema Novo's Critique of Conservative Modernization -- 6. Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Cinema de lagrimas -- 7. Luis Alcoriza -- or, A Certain Antimelodramatic Tendency in Mexican Cinema -- 8. Weeping Reality: Melodramatic Imagination in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary -- 9. Televisual Melodrama in an Era of Transnational Migration: Exporting the Folkloric Nation, Harvesting the Melancholic-Sublime -- Contributors -- Index of Names and Titles -- back cover.
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front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Short History of Film Melodrama in Latin America -- 1. Melodrama of the Spirited Woman: Aventurera -- 2. Melodrama and the Emergence of Venezuelan Cinema -- 3. The Building of a Nation: La geurra gaucha as Historical Melodrama -- 4. Women as Civilizers in 1940s Brazilian Cinema: Between Passion and the Nation -- 5. The Humiliation of the Father: Melodrama and Cinema Novo's Critique of Conservative Modernization -- 6. Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Cinema de lagrimas -- 7. Luis Alcoriza -- or, A Certain Antimelodramatic Tendency in Mexican Cinema -- 8. Weeping Reality: Melodramatic Imagination in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary -- 9. Televisual Melodrama in an Era of Transnational Migration: Exporting the Folkloric Nation, Harvesting the Melancholic-Sublime -- Contributors -- Index of Names and Titles -- back cover.

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