Modern Melodrama: How the American Telenovela Jane the Virgin Updates the Sentimental Novel.
- Resource Type
- Film/Television Criticism
- Authors
- Rose, Natalie
- Source
- Journal of Popular Culture. Oct2019, Vol. 52 Issue 5, p1081-1100. 20p.
- Subject
- *TELENOVELAS
*SENTIMENTAL fiction
*TELEVISION & literature
*MELODRAMA
*LITERARY parallels
- Language
- ISSN
- 1540-5931
The author presents a criticism of the television program "Jane the Virgin." She discusses the history of the telenovela on which "Jane" is based, the program's relation to sentimental fiction, and the use of melodramatic elements to demonstrate the parallels between the program and the fiction.