Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America: Identities and Social Change: Library of Gender and Popular Culture Anja Louis Bloomsbury Academic

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.

Foreword - Paul Julian Smith (Graduate Centre CUNY, USA)
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

Crammed with expertise, this ground-breaking anthology illuminates a wide range of television from Spain and Latin America. Examining mainstream and niche programmes and series on streaming platforms and public channels, this vital and fascinating volume investigates genres, gender, and diversity in production and reception, displaying all the thrilling variety and complexity of televisual forms, themes, aesthetics, audiences and their viewing habits.

Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK
Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America is an extremely rich collective of essays written by experts in the field. In the best tradition of cultural studies, it provides insights into some of the most popular and cutting-edge televisual content from Spain and Latin America on our screens. The authors' focus on feminism, gender and sexuality reveal important cultural shifts both on screen and off screen.

Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth, UK
This study poses an excellent introduction into the issues of gender and sexuality in Hispanic television. Each essay provides both deep analysis of individual shows, and a more comprehensive overview of the different ecosystems of Spanish-language television. This is must-read TV!

Vinodh Venkatesh, Virginia Tech, USA