{"product_id":"gender-and-contemporary-television-in-iberia-and-latin-america-identities-and-social-change-9781350404649","title":"Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America: Identities and Social Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eLa casa de papel \u003c\/i\u003e(2017-2021)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDrag Race España\u003c\/i\u003e (2021-), \u003ci\u003eInés del alma mía\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and \u003ci\u003eEl ministerio del tiempo \u003c\/i\u003e(2015)\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbigail Loxham\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Film Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is author of \u003ci\u003eCinema at the edges: New encounters with Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and José Luis Guerín\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). She has published widely on Spanish cinema with a focus on Catalonia, gender and memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnja Louis\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Cultural and Intercultural Studies and REF coordinator at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is author of \u003ci\u003eWomen and the Law: Carmen de Burgos\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMultiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). She has published widely in the fields of gender studies and popular culture.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51648971243794,"sku":"9781350404649","price":120.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3b824456-6436-4ba0-bf87-0c0f4afe4e51.jpg?v=1759840679","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gender-and-contemporary-television-in-iberia-and-latin-america-identities-and-social-change-9781350404649","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}