Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain and Mexico
Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain and Mexico
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Abstract
Over the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an extraordinary wealth of television drama and are among the leaders in their respective continents. The new dramas have high production values (easily the equal of cinema), intricately plotted narratives, and compellingly ambivalent characters. They are thus clearly worthy of the close textual analysis they have not yet received. Drawing on both national practices of production and reception (based on archival research in Madrid and Mexico City) and international theories of textual analysis, this book offers the first study of contemporary quality TV drama in two countries where, unlike elsewhere, it is not yet recognized that television has displaced cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative. As dramatized societies, Spain and Mexico are thus at once reflected and refracted by the new series on the small screen. Social issues treated include historical memory, youth, drugs, race, and gender.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Cold Opens
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Part One Spain
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One
The TV Mini-series as Historical Memory: From 23-F [February 23, The King’s Most Difficult Day] (TVE-1, 2009) to Marisol (Antena 3, 2009)
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Two
Transnational Telenovela Redux: Sin tetas no hay paraíso [Without Tits You Won’t Get to Heaven] (Tele 5, 2008–9)
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Three
Youth Culture on Television: El internado [The Boarding School] (Antena 3, 2007–10), Física o química [Physics or Chemistry] (Antena 3, 2008–11)
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Four
Postcolonial TV: El tiempo entre costuras [The Time In Between] (Antena 3, 2013–14); El Príncipe (Telecinco, 2014)
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One
The TV Mini-series as Historical Memory: From 23-F [February 23, The King’s Most Difficult Day] (TVE-1, 2009) to Marisol (Antena 3, 2009)
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Part Two Mexico
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Five
Educational Television: XY (Canal 11, 2009–12)
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Aesthetic TV: Soy tu fan [I’m Your Fan] (Canal 11, 2010–12), Pacientes [Patients] (Canal 11, 2012–13)
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Seven
Race on TV: Crónica de castas [Chronicle of Castes] (Canal 11, 2014)
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HBO Latin America Effect: Capadocia (HBO/Argos, 2008–14)
- Conclusion: Love Bites
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Educational Television: XY (Canal 11, 2009–12)
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End Matter
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