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Lexicon of Global Melodrama
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 400 pp.
"Welcome to the world of melodrama—and to the melodramas of the world. This book introduces nearly one hundred cinematic masterpieces from various periods and different cultural contexts—ranging from early Hollywood to emergent and popular Bollywood, from Latin American and New German Cinema to
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Melodrama and Public Pedagogy: The Construction of Memory from Television Fiction
Comunicación y Sociedad, issue e7362 (2020), pp. 1-19
"This article presents the main results of a research project that aims to analyze the construction of cultural memory through fictional series that represented the dictatorship period of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Based on interviews and focus groups with young people between 18 and 24 years old wh
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Understanding Bollywood
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 577-601
"This essay brings together four key elements of Bollywood cinema: 1. the lure of the mythological; 2. the allure of the Muslim courtesan, and Urdu, Bollywood's language of love; 3. the hegemony of melodrama; and 4. the persistence of song and dance." (Page 577)
