Struggles for Recognition : Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film / Juan Sebastián Ospina León.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ospina León, Juan Sebastián, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melodrama in motion pictures--20th century.

Melodrama in motion pictures.

Silent films--Latin America.

Silent films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Struggles for Recognition traces the emergence of melodrama in Latin American silent film and silent film culture. In this deeply archival investigation, Juan Sebastián Ospina León examines how melodrama visualized and shaped the social arena of urban modernity in early twentieth-century Latin America. Analyzing sociocultural contexts through film, this book demonstrates the ways in which melodrama was mobilized for both liberal and illiberal ends, revealing or concealing social inequities from Buenos Aires to Bogotá to Los Angeles. Ospina León critically engages Euro-American and Latin American scholarship seldom put into dialogue, offering an innovative theorization of melodrama relevant to scholars working within and across different national contexts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Melodrama and Visibility

1. "Filmdom" before and during the Great War

2. Buenos Aires Shadows: Urban Space, Fallen Women, and Destitute Men

3. Bogotá and Medellín: A Tale of Two Cities and Conservative Progress

4. Orizaba, Veracruz: Yesterday's Melodrama Today

5. South to North: Latin American Modernities

Conclusion: Struggles for Recognition

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)

ISBN:

9780520973411

0520973410

OCLC:

1248759510