| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 233 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Melodrama as ambiguous signifier: latin american telenovelas and Narco-dramas -- Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic unveiling of colonial desire -- Producing the global west through latin tales of seduction and enby -- Karen's seduction: the racial politics of appropriate dinner guests -- A mother's wrath and the complex disjuncturing of class -- Being narco: the evolution of a continental sensibility -- Saintly figures and icons: the migration of a continental dream -- La reina del sur: Gender, racial, and national contestations of regional identity -- Sex, drugs, and cumbia: the hybrid nature of culture -- Conclusion: the postcolonial politics of melodrama -- Ugly Betty. |
| Subject |
Television soap operas -- Latin America.
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Drugs in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Latin America.
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| ISBN |
9780292717121 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0292717121 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780292714502 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0292714505 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000041564470 |
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NLGGC 310458145 |
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