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Author | : Thomas Tufte |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781860205415 |
An examination of the role of telenovelas -- a Latin American sister to the Western soap opera -- this book looks at their impact on the everyday lives of Latin American audiences. It seeks to explain telenovelas' cultural and commercial success; the meanings, identities, and social actions articulated through watching telenovelas; and how audiences -- often first- or second-generation migrants in the huge cities of Latin America -- use telenovelas in coping with urban life and modernity.
Author | : Thomas Tufte |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Culture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Okpame Oronsaye |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 3755725576 |
Why The Tortoise Lives Under A Heap Of Rubbish In The Forest And Other Stories is a compilation of some fairytales of the Edo people, retold for children aged 8 to 10 years. The Edo people live in Nigeria, and their capital city is Benin City.
Author | : Josh Levin |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 031651327X |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author). On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect ill-gotten government checks. And that was just the beginning: Taylor, it turned out, was also a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer. A desperately ill teacher, a combat-traumatized Marine, an elderly woman hungry for companionship -- after Taylor came into their lives, all three ended up dead under suspicious circumstances. But nobody -- not the journalists who touted her story, not the police, and not presidential candidate Ronald Reagan -- seemed to care about anything but her welfare thievery. Growing up in the Jim Crow South, Taylor was made an outcast because of the color of her skin. As she rose to infamy, the press and politicians manipulated her image to demonize poor black women. Part social history, part true-crime investigation, Josh Levin's mesmerizing book, the product of six years of reporting and research, is a fascinating account of American racism, and an exposé of the "welfare queen" myth, one that fueled political debates that reverberate to this day. The Queen tells, for the first time, the fascinating story of what was done to Linda Taylor, what she did to others, and what was done in her name. "In the finest tradition of investigative reporting, Josh Levin exposes how a story that once shaped the nation's conscience was clouded by racism and lies. As he stunningly reveals in this "invaluable work of nonfiction," the deeper truth, the messy truth, tells us something much larger about who we are (David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).
Author | : June Carolyn Erlick |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134811888 |
This concise book provides an accessible overview of the history of the telenovela in Latin America within a pan-Latino context, including the way the genre crosses borders between Latin America and the United States. Telenovelas, a distinct variety of soap operas originating in Latin America, take up key issues of race, class, sexual identity and violence, interweaving stories with melodramatic romance and quests for identity. June Carolyn Erlick examines the social implications of telenovela themes in the context of the evolution of television as an integral part of the modernization of Latin American countries.
Author | : Shoma Munshi |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000052249 |
This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropological insight into social issues and practices of contemporary India through the television, this volume analyzes the production of soaps within India’s cultural fabric. It deconstructs themes and issues surrounding the "everyday" and the "middle class" through the fiction of the "popular". In its second edition, this still remains the only book to examine prime time soap operas on Indian television. Without in any way changing the central arguments of the first edition, it adds an essential introductory chapter tracking the tectonic shifts in the Indian "mediascape" over the past decade – including how the explosion of regional language channels and an era of multiple screens have changed soap viewing forever. Meticulously researched and persuasively argued, the book traces how prime time soaps in India still grab the maximum eyeballs and remain the biggest earners for TV channels. The book will be of interest to students of anthropology and sociology, media and cultural studies, visual culture studies, gender and family studies, and also Asian studies in general. It is also an important resource for media producers, both in content production and television channels, as well as for the general reader.
Author | : Marwan Kraidy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2004-02-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134380143 |
Emphasising the connection of globalisation to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, and the performative and creative relationships that audiences develop.
Author | : David Morley |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415157641 |
Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley analyses the varieties of exile, diaspora, displacement, connectedness, mobility experienced by members of social groups, and relates the micro structures of the home, the family and the domestic realm, to contemporary debates about the nation, community and cultural identities. He explores issues such as the role of gender in the construction of domesticity, and the conflation of ideas of maternity and home, and engages with recent debates about the 'territorialisation of culture'.
Author | : Ilan Stavans |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2010-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313364931 |
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.
Author | : Yolanda van Ede |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Love |
ISBN | : 9783825800437 |