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Latin American melodrama : passion, pathos, and entertainment / edited and with an introduction by Darlene J. Sadlier. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Melodrama of the spirited woman : Aventurera / Melodrama and the emergence of Venezuelan cinema / The building of a nation : La guerra gaucha as historical melodrama / Women as civilizers in 1940s Brazilian cinema : between passion and the nation / The humiliation of the father : melodrama and Cinema Novo's critigue of conservative modernization / Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Cinema de lágrimas / Luis Alcoriza; or, a certain antimelodramatic tendency in Mexican cinema / Weeping reality : melodramatic imagination in contemporary Brazilian documentary / Televisual melodrama in an era of transnational migration : exporting the folkloric nation, harvesting the melancholic-sublime / Gilberto Perez -- Luisela Alvaray -- Paula Félix-Didier and Andrés Levinson -- Cid Vasconcelos -- Ismail Xavier -- Darlene J. Sadlier -- Marvin D'Lugo -- Mariana Baltar -- Catherine L. Benamou.



ISBN: 9780252092329 9781283582889 9786613895332 6613895334

LCCN: 2019718620

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015356663 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Motion pictures--Latin America.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic Books.

LC Class. No.: PN1993 / .L385 2009