Romancing Yesenia : How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture

Romancing Yesenia How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salazkina, Masha (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press 2024.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Mexican > Influence > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures, Mexican > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Socialism and motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009819440106719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Subvention
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Prelude: The Soviet Stardom of Lolita Torres
  • 1. "Yesenia" in Mexico and the Soviet Union
  • 2. Mexican and Soviet Womanhood, circa 1970
  • 3. Between Mexican Cursilería and Russian Poshlost'
  • 4. The People, the Gray Market, and the Ballroom Gown
  • Coda: "Yesenia" in China and the Arrival of Telenovelas in the Socialist World
  • Notes
  • Index.

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