Review: Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film, by Juan Sebastián Ospina León

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Book Review| December 01 2021 Review: Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film, by Juan Sebastián Ospina León Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film, by Juan Sebastián Ospina León Koel Banerjee Koel Banerjee KOEL BANERJEE is a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on South Asian cinema, transnational melodrama, and consumer culture. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Cultural Critique, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, and Screen (forthcoming), and in edited anthologies, including Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism; The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film (forthcoming); and Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Juan Sebastián Ospina León, Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film. University of California Press, 2021. $85 hardcover; $34.95 paper; $ 34.95 e-book. 266 pages. Film Quarterly (2021) 75 (2): 117–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.75.2.117 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Koel Banerjee; Review: Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film, by Juan Sebastián Ospina León. Film Quarterly 1 December 2021; 75 (2): 117–120. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.75.2.117 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentFilm Quarterly Search You do not currently have access to this content.