Jarman, R (2017) Melodrama at the margins: Poverty, politics and profits in ‘Golden Age’ Venezuelan cinema. Modern Language Review, 112 (3). pp. 645-665. ISSN 0026-7937
Abstract
Tracing the 'Golden Age' collaborations between Mexican, Argentine, and Venezuelan film studios, this article analyses La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde (1949) and Caín adolescente (1959) as the fruits of early efforts to establish a film industry in Caracas. Bookending the 1948–58 military dictatorship, each film mediates local anxieties surrounding urbanization within the framework of melodrama that was predominant in 1940s Latin American cinema. Focusing on the films' distinct mediations of intersections between race, class, and gender, I argue that they negotiate the rise of the popular according to the conflicting ideologies that shaped their production in Venezuela.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, Modern Humanities Research Association. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Modern Language Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Spanish & Portuguese (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2017 10:17 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2018 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Modern Humanities Research Association |
Identification Number: | 10.5699/modelangrevi.112.3.0645 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111218 |