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050 0 0 _aPN1992
_bB456 D 2008
100 1 _aBenavides, O. Hugo
_9197217
245 1 0 _aDrugs, thugs, and divas :
_btelenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America /
_cby O. Hugo Benavides.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c2008.
300 _a233 p.
505 0 _aMelodrama 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.
505 0 _aHKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M08
650 0 _aTelevision soap operas
_zLatin America.
_9197218
650 0 _aDrugs in motion pictures.
_9197219
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_zLatin America.
900 _a= C.1 SDU
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