Struggles for Recognition - Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film

"A remarkable book that is poised to become required reading in film and media studies, Latin American studies, and urban studies—it’s quite possibly the most innovative study of Latin American melodrama that I have read in recent memory."—Colin Gunckel, author of Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II

"Struggles for Recognition is unique in reassessing Argentine, Colombian, and Mexican modernities by analyzing the effects of the conventions of melodrama on public participation and political subjectivity."—Cynthia M. Tompkins, author of Affectual Erasure: Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema

List of contents

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

About the author

Juan Sebastián Ospina León is an Independent Scholar.

Additional text

"Struggles for Recognition, given its subject, scope, and method, will be of interest to melodrama scholars; film scholars, particularly historians; and scholars of Latin American cultural studies."

Product details

• Authors: Juan Sebastian Ospina Leon, Juan Sebastián Ospina León
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780520305427
• ISBN: 978-0-520-30542-7
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Latin America, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / General, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, General and world history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism