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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"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 Corbalįn, 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
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Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Paul Julian Smith
Introduction: Crisis TV: Hispanic Television Narratives after 2008
Marķa del Carmen Cańa 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 (20102020)
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: Sćo Paulo
Dorian Lee Jackson
4. Notes on Prison Saga El Marginal: New Alliances and Transformations in the
Argentine Serial Narrative
Carolina Soria, translated by Marķa 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 Farińa
Francisca López
Section 4: Crisis Temporalities: Rethinking the Past in the Present
7. Netflix and "Espańa 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
Marķa del Carmen Cańa 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 Sśper and Blue
Demon
Vinodh Venkatesh
Closing Credits
Conclusion: La Debacle
Hernįn Rodrķguez Matte
Contributors
Index
Marķa del Carmen Cańa 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 Capitįn Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series, also published by SUNY Press. and New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film.
