Panoramas. What is this thing called soap opera? / Laura Stempel Mumford -- The international telenovela debate and the contra-flow argument : a reappraisal / Daniël Biltereyst and Philippe Meers -- Telenovelas and soap operas : negotiating reality from the periphery / Christina Slade -- Romancing the globe / Ibsen Martínez -- Understanding telenovelas as a cultural front : a complex analysis of a complex reality / Jorge González -- Opening America? The telenovela-ization of U.S. soap operas / Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington -- Engaging the audience : the social imagery of the novela / Reginald Clifford -- Case studies. Cultural identity : between reality and fiction : a transformation of genre and roles in Mexican telenovelas / María de la Luz Casas Pérez -- Fact or fiction? Narrative and reality in the Mexican Telenovela / Rosalind C. Pearson -- Whose life in the mirror? Examining three Mexican telenovelas as cultural and commercial products / Laura J. Beard.