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Benavides, O. Hugo
Drugs, thugs, and divas : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / by O. Hugo Benavides. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. - 233 p.
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. HKBU library
YT2025 M08
9780292717121
Television soap operas--Latin America.
Drugs in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Latin America.
PN1992 / B456 D 2008
Drugs, thugs, and divas : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / by O. Hugo Benavides. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. - 233 p.
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. HKBU library
YT2025 M08
9780292717121
Television soap operas--Latin America.
Drugs in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Latin America.
PN1992 / B456 D 2008