Class, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Mexican Film and Television Melodrama

dc.contributor.author	Autrey, Bonita
dc.date.accessioned	2020-04-20T16:31:57Z
dc.date.available	2020-04-20T16:31:57Z
dc.date.issued	2020-03-27
dc.description	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).
dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11697
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.title	Class, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Mexican Film and Television Melodrama
dc.type	Presentation