Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America
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- ISBN 9781350404649
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 142 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Abigail Loxham is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Film Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is author of Cinema at the edges: New encounters with Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and José Luis Guerín (2014). She has published widely on Spanish cinema with a focus on Catalonia, gender and memory.
Anja Louis is Reader in Cultural and Intercultural Studies and REF coordinator at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is author of Women and the Law: Carmen de Burgos (2005) and co-editor of Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist (2017). She has published widely in the fields of gender studies and popular culture.
