Drugs, thugs, and divas : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America /

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Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. Latin American soap operas--telenovelas--have found enthusiastic audiences throughout the Americas and Europe, as well as in Egypt, Russia, and China, while Mexican narco-d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Benavides, O. Hugo (Oswald Hugo), 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Television soap operas > Latin America.
Drugs in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Latin America.
Téléromans > Amérique latine.
Médicaments au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures.
Television soap operas.
Telenovela
Rauschgift > Motiv
Film
Såpoperor > Latinamerika.
Såpopera, Latinamerika.
Latinamerika.
Latin America.
Lateinamerika
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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