MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02107cam a2200361 a 4500
001 2007015807
003 DLC
005 20100409083012.0
008 070416s2008 txu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2007015807
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020 $a9780292714502 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780292717121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)123377324
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050 00 $aPN1992.8.S4$bB47 2008
082 00 $a791.45/6$222
100 1 $aBenavides, O. Hugo$q(Oswald Hugo),$d1968-
245 10 $aDrugs, thugs, and divas :$btelenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America /$cby O. Hugo Benavides.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aAustin :$bUniversity of Texas Press,$c2008.
300 $ax, 233 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.
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.
650 0 $aTelevision soap operas$zLatin America.
650 0 $aDrugs in motion pictures.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zLatin America.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007015807.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007015807-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007015807-d.html