Crisis TV - Hispanic Television Narratives After 2008

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.

About the author

Vinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech and author of New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film and The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Del Carmen Venkatesh Cana Jimenez
• Assisted by: María del Carmen Caña Jiménez (Editor), Cana Jimenez Maria del Carmen (Editor), Vinodh Venkatesh (Editor), Venkatesh Vinodh (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781438499857
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9985-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Mexico, South America, European History, Spain, Television, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, General and world history, History of the Americas, Central America, History of Performing Arts, Mexico and Central America, HISTORY / Europe / Spain