Telenovelas
By: edited by Ilan Stavans.
Contributors: Stavans, Ilan.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313364921; 9780313364938
Subjects: Television soap operas -- Latin America -- History and criticism; Television soap operas -- Social aspects -- Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Panoramas. What is this called soap opera? Public exposure and how things end / Laura Stempel Mumford; title: The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument : a reappraisal / Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers; title: Telenovelas and soap operas : negotiating reality from the periphery / Christina Slade; title: Romancing the globe / Ibsen Martínez; title: Understanding telenovelas as a cultural front : a complex analysis of a complex reality / Jorge González; title: Opening America?  The telenovela-ization of U.S. soap operas / Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington; title: Engaging the audience : the social imagery of the novela / Reginald Clifford; title: Case studies. Cultural identity : between reality and fiction: a transformation of genres and roles in Mexican telenovelas / María de la Luz Casas Pérez; title: Fact or fiction? Narrative and reality in the Mexican Telenovela / Rosalind C. Pearson; title: Whose life in the mirror? Examining three Mexican telenovelas as cultural and commercial products / Laura J. Beard.