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Pochonovela

Coco Fusco

1995, 27:00 minutes, colour, English & Spanish

TAPECODE 897.01

Coco Fusco's Poconovela is the first, bilingual, bicultural Chicano soap opera to capture the humor and madness of life in East Los Angeles. Pochonovela (literally meaning a hybrid Mexican-American soap opera) is a pioneering effort by US based Latino artists to explore Latin America's most popular form of entertainment and its most successful cultural export.

Pochonovella is the story of Doña Roña (Tomas Carrasco) and her two sons, Ernesto (Elias Serna), a hapless student activist, and Juan (Lalo Lopez), a yuppie business student. Forewarned of imminent danger by her tele-astrologer Dionne D'Love, Doña Roña discovers that her son Juan is dating the wrong kind of girl, and decides to call on her neighbor the witch, Doña Antonia, for help.

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Critical Writing

Inhaling Passions: Art, Sex and Scent
by Jim Drobnick. Sexuality & Culture, Summer 2000, v. 4, no. 3.