Latin American Melodrama

ISBN: 9780252034640

出版年: 2009-9

页数: 200

定价: $ 67.80

内容简介

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.