
ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS: CONTENT POLICIES IN MEXICAN TELENOVELAS, 1957-1997
Paper presented at:
Representing Mexico:
Transnationalism and the politics of culture in Post-revolutionary Mexico
International conference sponsored by
Yale University and the Woodrow Wilson Center,
at the Smithsonian Institution Tower,
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.,
Friday 7th and Saturday 8th, November, 1997.
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ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS...,
CONTENT POLICIES IN MEXICAN TELENOVELAS
(1957-1997)
Blanca de Lizaur,
U.N.A.M.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
Telenovelas, what they are
The birth of Mexican telenovelas
The myth of progress
Literature's social function
Who decides what can be shown
Contents' agenda
A short history of religious elements in Mexican telenovelas
Religiou...