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Melodrama

Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment

by admin on June 20, 2010

Review
“A welcome addition to the literature, particularly given melodrama’s centrality in cinematic and televisual discourses in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuala. A very important volume.” Randal Johnson, author of Manoel de Oliveira
Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and [...]

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Our Faith in Evil: Melodrama and the Effects of Entertainment Violence

by admin on June 11, 2010

Critics often characterize American films and other entertainment media as being violent for titillation value. American society has been dubbed a culture of violence by some. If these contentions are true, are the two connected? Studies on the effects of media violence, each using the same data, have reached opposing conclusions. The question [...]

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