Struggles for Recognition
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- ISBN 9780520305434
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 2021
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Struggles for Recognition traces the emergence of melodrama in Latin American silent film and silent film culture. Juan Sebastián Ospina León draws on extensive archival research to reveal how melodrama visualized and shaped the social arena of urban modernity in early twentieth-century Latin America. Analyzing sociocultural contexts through film, this book demonstrates the ways in which melodrama was mobilized for both liberal and illiberal ends, revealing or concealing social inequities from Buenos Aires to Bogotá to Los Angeles. Ospina León critically engages Euro-American and Latin American scholarship seldom put into dialogue, offering an innovative theorization of melodrama relevant to scholars working within and across different national contexts.
