Teatros del corazón

Synopsis of Teatros del corazón

«Teatros del corazón» is the essay by Rosa María Pereda on love in the mass media (Espasa-Calpe, paperback, 183 pages).

Rosa Pereda studies how love and feelings have left the private sphere to become material of mass culture. The author surveys the genres she calls «of sentiment» —romance novel, sentimental novel, photo-novels, fumetti and comics— and analyses their presence in literature, television and radio.

Published in 1997 in the Espasa hoy series; written in Spanish; includes bibliographic references (pages 179-183).

For readers interested in literary criticism and in the representation of love and feelings in mass culture.