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Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis. Crisis TV addresses the motif of crisis that has come to dominate contemporary Hispanic televisual production since 2008 and the onset of the global financial crisis. In almost unprecedented fashion, the global economy came to a standstill, reshaping both geopolitical organizations and, more importantly, the lives of billions across the globe. The Great Recession, sociopolitical instabilities, the rise of extremist political parties and governments, and a worldwide pandemic have resulted in a mode of crisis that pervades contemporary television fiction. 2008 also marks a revolution in television, as local and global streaming services began to gain market share and even overtake traditional over-the-air transmission. The essays in Crisis TV identify and analyze the narrative tropes and aesthetic qualities of Hispanic television post-2008 to understand how different regions and genres have negotiated these intersecting crises and changing dynamics in production, dissemination, and consumption.

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Author:   Maria del Carmen Cana Jimenez ,  Vinodh Venkatesh
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781438499864

ISBN 10:   1438499868
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   02 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword Paul Julian Smith Introduction: Crisis TV: Hispanic Television Narratives after 2008 María del Carmen Caña Jiménez and Vinodh Venkatesh Section 1: Crisis Industries 1. From the Big Freeze to Peak TV: A Decade in the Spanish TV Drama Industry between Two Crises (2010–2020) Concepción Cascajosa Virino 2. The Perfect Storm: Chilean Audiovisual Fiction in Times of Globalization Lorena Antezana Barrios Section 2: Crisis Societies 3. Immigration, Exploitation, and Assemblage in Destino: São Paulo Dorian Lee Jackson 4. Notes on Prison Saga El Marginal: New Alliances and Transformations in the Argentine Serial Narrative Carolina Soria, translated by María Victoria Boano Section 3: Crisis Genres and Transnational Productions 5. Banking on Crisis Capitalism: Money and the State in Bank Heist Media Camilla Fojas 6. Televisual Narco Fiction in Times of Crisis: The Case of Fariña Francisca López Section 4: Crisis Temporalities: Rethinking the Past in the Present 7. Netflix and ""España Global"": Promoting Spain through Television Streaming in La casa de papel, Las chicas del cable, and Élite Joanne Britland 8. Crises Upon Crisis: Game of Mirrors, Baroque Elements, and Cervantine Influences in La que se avecina María del Carmen Caña Jiménez Section 5: Crisis Futures: Superheroes and Science Fiction 9. Alternative Realities: Central American Science Fiction Television and the Reimagining of Society's Future Greg C. Severyn 10. Small-Screen Superheroes in Argentina and Mexico: Nafta Súper and Blue Demon Vinodh Venkatesh Closing Credits Conclusion: La Debacle Hernán Rodríguez Matte Contributors Index

Reviews

""A groundbreaking study of new tendencies in television from Spain and Latin America. Innovative and timely, Crisis TV makes an important contribution to Hispanic cultural studies, taking the disjunction of the financial crisis as a framing device to theorize the production and reception of Hispanic TV in a multinational context."" — Ana Corbalán, University of Alabama ""Featuring distinguished contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, Crisis TV ranges across multiple and far-flung territories which are rarely considered side by side: Spain and Chile, Brazil and Argentina, Central America and Mexico. One does not need to be familiar with the primary texts analyzed in these chapters to be fascinated by their exposition."" — from the foreword by Paul Julian Smith

Author Information

María del Carmen Caña Jiménez is Associate Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech. She is the coeditor of Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo (with Vinodh Venkatesh). Vinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Capitán Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series, also published by SUNY Press. and New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film.

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