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Melodrama, subjetividad y reconocimiento en la ficción televisiva. Una propuesta de abordaje
Correspondencias & Análisis, 2020 Proponemos enunciar brevemente los conceptos que relacionan el melodrama con una forma de ser y estar en América Latina, el modo en que los medios de comunicación masiva, especialmente la televisión, lo han adoptado y adaptado, para constituirlo en “el ...
María Victoria Bourdieu
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Flesh and code: The cinematic lineage of AI replacing humans from Maria to Cassandra
AI Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 1, Spring 2026.Abstract This study explores the evolving representation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) characters in media and its intersection with contemporary technological issues, focusing on the paradoxical human desire for emotional and creative replacement.
Jiyoung Kim, Ki Han Kwon
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Lejos del nido: el indígena como el malo (y feo) del melodrama
Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, 2013 Lejos del nido es una novela escrita por el colombiano Juan José Botero nacido en Rionegro (Antioquia) y publicada por primera vez en 1924. La propuesta del siguiente artículo es señalar los elementos melodramáticos subyacentes en dicha novela y que ...
Wilson Orozco
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‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations
History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 155-167, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
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Melodrama in the Apltiplano. Child Abuse, Illegal Mining and Mental Health in Three Puno Melodramas
Contratexto, 2016 It is noticeable that, in regional Peruvian cinematography, the most common genre is melodrama, and that the region that has produced the most melodramas is Puno.
Emilio Bustamante
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Gold and tears of Maria Moura: a contemporary heroine in the hinterland of the nineteenth century
Gragoatá, 2005 Which should be the main traces of a heroin that really belongs to the XXIst century? The feuilleton of the XIXth century brings to paper many of the the strategies of theatrical melodrama, which appeared in France after French Revolution.
Patrícia Coelho Moretzsohn
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Le silence, mise à l’épreuve de la sincérité au théâtre (1802-1828)
Quêtes Littéraires, 2017 In 19th century French very successful melodrama, discourse is seen as a powerful way to get attention. Criminals and traitors are masters of speech and seductive persuasion, but they never achieve their goals by the end of the play.
Florence Fix
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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-22, January 2026.Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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The ThinkerThis article focuses on two post-apartheid melodramatic films that engage with the experiences of queer characters. While melodrama is often dismissed as a less serious and less sophisticated cinematic genre, I argue that it can be powerfully used to ...
Andy Carolin
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