Struggles for Recognition

Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-30542-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Struggles for Recognition traces the emergence of melodrama in Latin American silent film and silent film culture. Juan Sebastián Ospina León draws on extensive archival research to reveal how melodrama visualized and shaped the social arena of urban modernity in early twentieth-century Latin America. Analyzing sociocultural contexts through film, this book demonstrates the ways in which melodrama was mobilized for both liberal and illiberal ends, revealing or concealing social inequities from Buenos Aires to Bogotá to Los Angeles. Ospina León critically engages Euro-American and Latin American scholarship seldom put into dialogue, offering an innovative theorization of melodrama relevant to scholars working within and across different national contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ospina Leon, Juan Sebastian

Ospina León, Juan Sebastián

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Melodrama and Visibility
1. "Filmdom" before and during the Great War
2. Buenos Aires Shadows: Urban Space, Fallen Women, and Destitute Men
3. Bogotá and Medellín: A Tale of Two Cities and Conservative Progress
4. Orizaba, Veracruz: Yesterday's Melodrama Today
5. South to North: Latin American Modernities
Conclusion: Struggles for Recognition

List of Abbreviations
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Juan Sebastián Ospina León is an Independent Scholar.