Doña Bárbara Unleashed

Jenni M. Lehtinen

Description

Since its publication in 1929, the story of Doña Bárbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen. Doña Bárbara Unleashed explores how Rómulo Gallegos’s original story has been kept alive yet altered by subsequent screen adaptations; the book illustrates how film and telenovela adaptations have reinterpreted Doña Bárbara in order to mirror changes in societal norms, such as the role of women in Latin American societies, and audience expectations. Particular attention is given to how spectators in the twenty-first century have played a crucial role influencing the alterations to which Gallegos’s original plot has been subjected. Now Doña Bárbara Unleashed offers an original way of studying screen adaptations by engaging several adaptations of the same source text in dialogue with each other, rather than simply comparing adaptations to the source text. This is a ground-breaking study that further develops readings through more traditional theories of screen adaptations with approaches emerging from fandom studies and audience responses.

Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Doña Bárbara, Her Critics, Her Story and Her Fans
1 ‘The Legend of María Transformed into the Doña’ – Fernando de Fuentes’s Launching of a Legend on Screen (1943)
2 ‘From the Point of View of the Woman’ – Doña Bárbara as Seen by Betty Kaplan (1998)
3 Doña Bárbara Reborn – Entering the New Millennium on the Small Screen (2008)
4 Simply La Doña (2016)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Hispanic
• Latin America
• American
• Latino

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786836878
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

IBER I A N A ND L ATIN A MER IC A N STUDIES

Doña BárbaraUneashed

Series Editors Professor Davîd George (Swansea Unîversîty) Professor Pau Garner (Unîversîty of Leeds)

Editorial Board

Samue Amago (Unîversîty of Vîrgînîa) Roger Bartra (Unîversîdad Autónoma de Méxîco) Pau Castro (Unîversîty of Gasgow) Rîchard Cemînson (Unîversîty of Leeds) Catherîne Davîes (Unîversîty of London) Luîsa-Eena Degado (Unîversîty of Iînoîs) Marîa Degado (Centra Schoo of Speech and Drama, London) Wî Fower (Unîversîty of St. Andrews) Davîd Gîes (Unîversîty of Vîrgînîa) Gareth Waters (Swansea Unîversîty) Duncan Wheeer (Unîversîty of Leeds)

Other titles in the series Fantastîc Short Storîes by Women Authors from Spaîn and Latîn Amerîca: A Crîtîca Anthoogy Patrîcîa Gracía and Teresa López-Peîsa Carmen Martín Gaîte: Poetîcs, Vîsua Eements and Space Ester Bautîsta Boteo The Spanîsh Anarchîsts of Northern Austraîa: Revoutîon în the Sugar Cane Fîeds Robert Mason Pauo Emîîo Saes Gomes: On Brazî and Goba Cînema Maîte Conde and Stephanîe Dennîson The Tateoco Massacre, Mexîco 1968, and the Emotîona Trîange of Anger, Grîef and Shame: Dîscourses of Truth(s) Vîctorîa Carpenter The Darkenîng Natîon: Race, Neoîberaîsm and Crîsîs în Argentîna Ignacîo Aguîó Cataan Cuture: Experîmentatîon, creatîve îmagînatîon and thereatîonshîp wîth Spaîn Loyd Hughes Davîes, J. B. Ha and D. Gareth Waters

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Doña Bárbara Uneashed

From Venezuean Paîns to Internatîona Screen

JENNI M. LEHTINEN

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2021

© Jennî M. Lehtînen, 2021

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Contents

Serîes Edîtors’ Foreword

Acknowedgements Lîst of Fîgures Introductîon: Doña Bárbara, Her Crîtîcs, Her Story and Her Fans 1 ‘The Legend of María Transformed înto the Doña’ – Fernando de Fuentes’s Launchîng of a Legend on Screen (1943) 2 ‘From the Poînt of Vîew of the Woman’ –Doña Bárbara as Seen by Betty Kapan (1998) 3Doña BárbaraReborn – Enterîng the New Mîennîum on the Sma Screen (2008) 4 SîmpyLa Doña(2016) Concusîon Notes Bîbîography Index

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Series Editors’ Foreword

Over recent decades the tradîtîona ‘anguages and îteratures’ mode în Spanîsh departments în unîversîtîes în the Unîted Kîngdom has been superseded by a contextua, înterdîscîpînary and ‘area studîes’ approach to the study of the cuture, hîstory, socîety and poîtîcs of the Hîspanîc and Lusophone words – cate- gorîes that extend far beyond the conines of the Iberîan Penînsua, not ony în Latîn Amerîca but aso to Spanîsh-speakîng and Lusophone Afrîca. In response to these dynamîc trends în research prîorîtîes and currîcuum deveopment, thîs serîes îs desîgned to present both dîscîpînary and înterdîscîpînary research wîthîn the genera ied of Iberîan and Latîn Amerîcan Studîes, partîcuary studîes that expore a aspects of Cutura Productîon (înter aîa îterature, im, musîc, dance, sport) în Spanîsh, Portuguese, Basque, Cataan, Gaîcîan and îndîgenous anguages of Latîn Amerîca. The serîes aso aîms to pubîsh research în the Hîstory and Poîtîcs of the Hîspanîc and Lusophone words, at the eve of both the regîon and the natîon-state, as we as on Cutura Studîes that expore the shîftîng terraîns of gender, sexua, racîa and postcoonîa îdentî- tîes în those same regîons.