Class, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Mexican Film and Television Melodrama
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Autrey, Bonita
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This study examines narratives of social identity in two media genres of Mexican melodrama: the most popular telenovela of all time, Maria del Barrio (Angelii Nesma Medina, México, 1995-1996), and the arthouse blockbuster Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, México, 2018). Although critics have long disparaged melodrama as uncritical, I argue that María del Barrio and Roma turn this genre’s focus on the family as a critical exposition of class, gender and ethnic disparities in Mexican life.
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Paper accepted to the Annual Meeting of the Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, March 2020 (conference cancelled due to covid-19 outbreak).
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