This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women#x92;s use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women#x92;s use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously in…
This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women's use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.
Panoramas. What is this called soap opera? Public exposure and how things end / Laura Stempel Mumford -- The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument : a reappraisal / Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers -- Telenovelas and soap operas : negotiating reality f…
Drama! Excess! Men in bee suits! Though sometimes fantastical and dramatic, the telenovela differs greatly from U.S. soap operas and has regional and cultural distinctions throughout Latin America. In Telenovelas, Ilan Stavans has gathered over two dozen essays covering the tele…
Introduction -- Telenovela: history, transformations and resilience -- The making of a telenovela -- The audience and the telenovela: transformations and resilience of spectatorship -- The influence of the scree convergence, new digital platforms and transmedia narratives on tel…
"This book investigates how telenovelas may be the key to the future of Brazilian television and how this content can survive in an interconnected media landscape. Recognised writer and scholar Rosane Svartman considers the particular characteristics of the telenovela format - n…
"This book investigates how telenovelas may be the key to the future of Brazilian television and how this content can survive in an interconnected media landscape. Recognised writer and scholar Rosane Svartman considers the particular characteristics of the telenovela format - n…
Milieu of production -- Key elements of production: characteristics of soaps -- Soap tales -- Women: similar genre, different representations -- The male voice -- Themes and issues. "This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropolo…
"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 analyses the production of soaps within India's cultural fabric. It deconstruc…
"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 analyses the production of soaps within India's cultural fabric. It deconstruc…
"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 analyses the production of soaps within India's cultural fabric. It deconstruc…
