Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment - Hardcover

Darlene J. Sadlier

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252034643 ISBN 13: 9780252034640

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2009

Synopsis

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. There is an introductory essay that examines current critical and theoretical debates on melodrama and places the essays within the context of Latin American film and media scholarship.

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Review:

"A welcome addition to the literature, particularly given melodrama's centrality in cinematic and televisual discourses in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuala. A very important volume." --Randal Johnson, author of Manoel de Oliveira

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0252034643
• ISBN 13: 9780252034640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Darlene J. Sadlier