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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sadlier, Darlene J. (Darlene Joy)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Latin America.

Motion pictures.

National characteristics, Latin American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama. An introductory essay examines current critical and theoretical debates on melodrama and places the essays within the context of Latin American film and media scholarship. Contributors are Luisela Alvaray, Mariana Baltar, Catherine L. Benamou, Marvin D'Lugo, Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson, Gilberto Perez, Darlene J. Sadlier, Cid Vasconcelos, and Ismail Xavier.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-58288-0

9786613895332

0-252-09232-5

OCLC:

1097146866