Tv's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand

by Kim Akass and Janet McCabe

Book Overview

Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has since taken an extraordinary global journey and become the most successful telenovela to date. This groundbreaking book asks what the Yo soy Betty, la fea/Ugly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780762674
• ISBN13: 9781780762678
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"