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Latin American Melodrama
Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment
Edited and with an Introduction by Darlene J. Sadlier
Cloth978-0-252-03464-0
$60.00
Paper978-0-252-07655-8
$25.00
| Pub Date: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 192 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
| Illustrations: | 24 black & white photographs |
The first book to consider cinematic and televisual melodrama in a broad Latin American and U.S. Latino context
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.
"A welcome addition to the literature, particularly given melodrama's centrality in cinematic and televisual discourses in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. A very important volume."--Randal Johnson, author of Manoel de Oliveira
"Stimulating, interesting, and informative. The originality and breadth of the research and the interpretations of individual films make this volume a truly significant contribution to the field."--Dennis D. West, author of Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Darlene J. Sadlier is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University and the author of Nelson Pereira dos Santos and, most recently, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present.
Subjects:
Film / Latino/Latin American Studies
