Dona Barbara Unleashed (eBook)

From Venezuelan Plains to International Screen

Jenni M. Lehtinen (Autor)

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2021
224 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-688-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Since its publication in 1929, the story of Dona Barbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen. Dona Barbara Unleashed explores how Romulo Gallegos's original story has been kept alive yet altered by subsequent screen adaptations; the book illustrates how film and telenovela adaptations have reinterpreted Dona Barbara 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 Dona Barbara 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.

Autor

‘Doña Bárbara Unleashed will be of specific interest to scholars and students working on both Latin American Literature and Culture. Moreover, due its critical engagement with screen adaptation theories, and particularly its way of putting different adaptations of the same source text into dialogue with each other, the monograph will be useful for non-Hispanist scholars and students working on screen adaptations. The monograph’s further engagement with fandom theories and fan comments makes it an attractive and helpful volume for scholars and students working on fandom studies.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Bárbara • Doña • from • international • Jenni • Lehtinen • m • Plains • Screen • to • Unleashed • venezuelan
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-688-2 / 1786836882
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-688-5 / 9781786836885