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Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
Deep Insights
Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), xxii, 381 pp.
"In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 years, affecting societal perceptions of the past, historical consciousness, and political culture. While these TV products are usually perceived as trivi
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Sorriso amaro: El humorismo en las letras hispanoamericanas entre los siglos XX y XXI
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2025), 271 pp.
"Con quince contribuciones de investigadores procedentes de universidades italianas e internacionales, este volumen construye una perspectiva de los estudios sobre el humor, las posibles variaciones tropológicas y las metodologías que se necesitan a la hora de acotar sus diferentes expresiones. Es
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Showrunning for Social Impact Entertainment: The Collaborative System of Rosy Ocampo & El Instituto
Deep Insights
Coyoacán, Mexico, DF: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales; Population Media Center (2025), 580 pp.
"In our years of working with producers, we at El Instituto have seen a consistent industry demand for insights into what makes content resonate with audiences. This book, Showrunning for Social Impact Entertainment: The Collaborative System of Rosy Ocampo & El Instituto, explores the career and pro
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Televisión con memoria: Entrevistas a creadores de ficción histórica en Chile y Colombia
Berlin; Bogotá: Laboratorio de Investigación de la Memoria y Métodos Digitales (GUMELAB); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); FES Comunicación (2025), 395 pp.
"La televisión latinoamericana no solo entretiene, también recuerda. En Chile y Colombia, series y telenovelas han hecho de la pantalla un espacio donde se discute la historia reciente, la dictadura, el conflicto armado, el narcotráfico, la corrupción. En Televisión con memoria, la historiadora
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The politics of serial television fiction: Structural developments, narrative themes, and the nonlinear turn
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 431 pp.
"Fictional TV politics played a pivotal role in the popular imaginaries of the 2010s across cultures. Examining this curious phenomenon, Sebastian Naumann provides a wide-ranging analysis of the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary polit-series. Proposing a novel structural model of serial tel
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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment
HarrisX; Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.
"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi
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Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 202 pp.
"Centered around Mexico as a case study, the book explores the production of political entertainment in post-authoritarian legacy media and how political and economic conditions constrain the range and edge of discourse; how political entertainment in social media is shaped by the structure of platf
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Observatório Ibero-americano da Ficção Televisiva OBITEL 2024. O que está acontecendo como as narrativas na ficção televisiva ibero-americana? = ¿Qué está pasando con las narrativas en la ficción iberoamericana?
Deep Insights
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2024), 355 pp.
"Como cada año, el Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Ficción Televisiva (Obitel) monitoriza el sistema televisivo de los países del ámbito iberoamericano para dar cuenta, principalmente, de dos cuestiones clave: la oferta televisiva y el nivel de consumo, por un lado, y la producción de ficció
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Digital Satire in Latin America: Online Video Humor as Hybrid Alternative Media
Gainesville: University Press of Florida (2024), x, 193 pp.
"This book analyzes how digital-native audiovisual satire has become increasingly influential in national public debates within Latin America. Paul Alonso illuminates the role of online video in filling gaps in sociopolitical critique left by television, traditional journalism, and commercial entert
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A telenovela e o futuro da televisão brasileira
Rio de Janeiro: Cobogó (2023), 243 pp.
"Em popularidade, as telenovelas são o equivalente, na cultura brasileira, aos blockbusters de Hollywood, aos livros best-sellers mundiais, às músicas ouvidas por milhões ao redor do planeta e aos megashows que lotam estádios. Mas, com a consolidação do streaming e das novas mídias digitais,
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Watching Competencies: Malay Women, Turkish Serial Dramas and Islamic Modernity
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 101-120
"This article discusses the emergence of Turkish serial dramas as a site for contestation over the impact of Islamic modernity on Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. Despite its popularity among Malay women, Turkish serial drama has been criticized for misleading and confusing the audience about I
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Television Publics in South Asia: Mediated Politics and Culture
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 250 pp.
"Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
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Grauen ohne Grenzen: Horror in Film & Literatur
iz3w, issue 394 (2023), pp. 22-41
"Wie einst im ursprünglichen Gothic die verlassenen Schlösser des Feudalismus als Orte des Spuks in die bürgerliche Ära hineinragten, so sind es heute die globalen Ruinen des geplatzten Traums von Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit, in denen das Grauen haust: Von den vom Immobiliencrash ge
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Observatorio Iberoamericano de Ficción Televisiva OBITEL 2023. As produtoras independentes e a internacionalização da produção de ficção televisiva na Ibero-América = Las productoras independientes y la internacionalización de la producción de ficción televisiva en Iberoamérica
Deep Insights
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2023), 367 pp.
"Probablemente, el indicador más elocuente del descenso en la producción es que, sumados, los mismos países produjeron en 2022 un 54% de lo que producían en 2012. El gráfico 3 muestra las caídas ocurridas en cada país. A nivel agregado, los niveles de producción de 2012 son similares a los
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Soft News in Original Videos: Adaptation to TikTok of the Main Spanish Online Media
Profesional de la Información, volume 32, issue 2 (2023), 17 pp.
"Since the beginning of 2020, media around the world have started and intensified their TikTok activity to gain notoriety and reach young people, their main user group. However, as with other previously popularized social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, the platform’s logic is different from t
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