Benavides, O. Hugo  1968- <br/><br/>
Drugs, thugs, and divas :  telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America / 
by Oswald Hugo Benavides. 
 - Austin, E.U.A.  :  University of Texas Press,  2008. 
 - x, 233 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780292714502 (cloth : alk. paper) 0292714505 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780292717121 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0292717121 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007015807 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA869735  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014622530  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Television soap operas--Latin America.<br/>Soap operas<br/>Drugs in motion pictures.<br/>Motion pictures--Latin America.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1992.8  / B456d 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.45/6