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.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Paul Julian Smith
Introduction: Crisis TV: Hispanic Television Narratives after 2008
María del Carmen Caña 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 (2010–2020)
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: São Paulo
Dorian Lee Jackson
4. Notes on Prison Saga El Marginal: New Alliances and Transformations in the Argentine Serial Narrative
Carolina Soria, translated by María 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 Fariña
Francisca López
Section 4: Crisis Temporalities: Rethinking the Past in the Present
7. Netflix and ‘España 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
María del Carmen Caña 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 Súper and Blue Demon
Vinodh Venkatesh
Closing Credits
Conclusion: La Debacle
Hernán Rodríguez Matte
Contributors
Index
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.
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