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Informationen zum Autor Ilan Stavans , PhD, is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst College. Klappentext Drama! Excess! Men in bee suits! Often erroneously compared to soap operas of the United States, outside of the necessary and sometimes fantastical dramatic story arc, however, the telenovela differs greatly from U.S. soap operas and have regional and cultural distinctions throughout Latin America. In Telenovelas , Ilan Stavans has gathered over two-dozen essays covering the telenovela for readers to better understand the phenomenon and its myriad layers.Branching off from radionovelas , the telenovela was exported from pre-Castro Cuba during the 1950s. The essays found in Telenovelas covers a broad view of the genre, television's impact in Latino culture, as well as more in-depth discussions of specific telenovelas throughout the Spanish-speaking television audience in the North America. Also explored is how telenovelas depict stereotypes, respond to gender and class roles, and examines the differences in topic and thematic choices as well as production values unique to each country. Zusammenfassung The essays found in Telenovelas covers a broad view of the genre! television's impact in Latino culture! as well as more in-depth discussions of specific telenovelas throughout the Spanish-speaking television audience in the North America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword by Ilan Stavans Preface I PANORAMAS What Is This Thing Called Soap Opera? Laura Stempel Mumford The International Telenovela Debate and the Contra-Flow Argument: A Reappraisal Daniël Biltereyst and Philippe Meers Telenovelas and Soap Operas: Negotiating Reality from the Periphery Christina Slade Romancing the Globe Ibsen Martínez Understanding Telenovelas as a Cultural Front: A Complex Analysis of a Complex Reality Jorge González Opening America? The Telenovela-ization of U.S. Soap Operas Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington Engaging the Audience: The Social Imagery of the Novela Reginald Clifford II CASE STUDIES Cultural Identity: Between Reality and Fiction: A Transformation of Genre and Roles in Mexican Telenovelas María de la Luz Casas Pérez Fact or Fiction? Narrative and Reality in the Mexican Telenovela Rosalind C. Pearson Whose Life in the Mirror? Examining Three Mexican Telenovelas as Cultural and Commercial Products Laura J. Beard Selected Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors ...
