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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252092329 9781283582889 9786613895332 6613895334 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019718620 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015356663  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--Latin America.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1993  / .L385 2009