TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benavides,O.Hugo
TI  - Drugs, thugs, and divas: telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America 
SN  - 9780292714502 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1992.8 B456d 2008
U1  - 791.45/6 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Austin, E.U.A.
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Television soap operas
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Soap operas
KW  - Drugs in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007015807.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007015807-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007015807-d.html
ER  -