Latin American melodrama : passion, pathos, and entertainment

著者

edited and with an introduction by Darlene J. Sadlier

University of Illinois Press, c2009

Includes bibliographical references and index

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