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Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America
Identities and Social Change
Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America
Identities and Social Change
Description
This book provides an inclusive and intersectional look into television from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Each of the essays, written by international scholars across various disciplines, offer close textual analyses of popular series from Mexico, Spain, Brazil and Cuba, these include La casa de papel (2017-2021), Drag Race España (2021-), Inés del alma mía (2020) and El ministerio del tiempo (2015). The detailed case studies of seminal local and global hits provide overdue critical attention to Latin American television programming, highlighting on screen representations of gendered identities and the role of online streaming in facilitating social change.
The collection goes on to explore recent industrial changes through first hand interviews with prominent practitioners such as Veronica Fernandez and Leticia Dolera. Discussing a broad range of genres including the telenovela, melodrama, historical drama and reality TV, alongside critical theories of media and gender, the collection contextualises and interrogates representational practices in Spanish television programming.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Anja Louis (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) And Abigail Loxham (University Of Liverpool, UK)
I: Women in Spain: Creation and Representation
1. Gender Violence, Netflix and Mediations of Popular Feminism in Spain: The case of Alba and No estás sola: la lucha contra la manada - Abigail Loxham
2. A Voice(Over) of One's Own: Female Voices and Authorship in La casa de papel - Fiona Noble (University Of Stirling, UK)
3. From Indictment to Aestheticisation: The Prostitution System in the Series O sabor das margaridas - Jaqueline Cruz (Independent Researcher, USA)
II: Queer TV in Spain and Mexico
4. Queer Memory in Contemporary Spanish Digital TV: Paquita Salas, Veneno and Maricón perdido - Miguel García (University Of Bristol, UK)
5. Yas queen and olé: National and Transnational Queer Identities and Traditions in Drag Race España - Asier Gil Vázquez (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
6. Diverse Party: Queer Presences in Hegemonic Places, and Analysis of Sexual Diversity in Acapulco Shore - Francisco Marin (Phd Candidate At Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
III: Gender and Genre in Latin America
7. Can They Love Each Other? It Depends: Gendered Representation of Age Difference in a Telenovela - Carolina Acosta Alzuru (University Of Georgia, USA)
8. Cuando una mujer: Popular Television, Gendered Care Work and Feminist Debates in Cuba - Rebecca Ogden (University Of Kent, UK)
9. Narrative Eco-Systems, Modular Mutuality, and Dynamism: The Case of The Mexican Limited Series Somos - Niamh Thornton (University Of Liverpool, UK)
IV: Women and History on Spanish TV
10. Updating the Conquest of America. Historical Revisionism, Feminism, and Interculturality in Inés del alma mía - Francisco López Rodríguez (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan) And Irene Raya Bravo, (University Of Seville, Spain)
11. The Time of Gender: National History, Anachronism and Gender Roles in El ministerio del tiempo - Rodrigo López Martínez (Phd Candidate At University Of Manchester, UK)
12. Embodied Care and Compassion: Nursing in Tiempo de guerra - Anja Louis
List of References
Index
Product details
| Published | 07 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350404663 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 30 bw illus |
| Series | Library of Gender and Popular Culture |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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