{"product_id":"pablo-escobar-and-colombian-narcoculture","title":"Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHow the legacy of Pablo Escobar inspired the development of narcoculture in Colombia and around the world \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn  the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar  has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and  masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration of Escobar’s impact on  popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired  the development of \u003cem\u003enarcoculture\u003c\/em\u003e—television, music, literature, and fashion representing the drug-trafficking lifestyle—in Colombia and around the world.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePobutsky  looks at the ways the “Escobar brand” surfaces in bars, restaurants,  and clothing lines; in Colombia’s tourist industry; and in \u003cem\u003etelenovelas\u003c\/em\u003e,  documentaries, and narco memoirs about his life, which in turn have  generated popular interest in other drug traffickers such as Griselda  Blanco and Miami’s “cocaine cowboys.” Pobutsky illustrates how the  Colombian state strives to erase his memory while Escobar’s notoriety  only continues to increase in popular culture through the transnational  media. She argues that the image of Escobar is inextricably linked to  Colombia’s internal tensions in the areas of cocaine politics, gender  relations, class divisions, and political corruption and that his  “brand” perpetuates the country’s reputation as a center of organized  crime, to the dismay of the Colombian people. This book is a fascinating  study of how the world perceives Colombia and how Colombia’s citizens  understand their nation’s past and present.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA  volume in the series \u003cem\u003eReframing Media, Technology, and Culture in  Latin\/o America\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos  Rodríguez.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249103655256,"sku":"9781683404866","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781683404866_cf4aa91b-37aa-4448-97e1-04e1cbf3cbd8.jpg?v=1777869041","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pablo-escobar-and-colombian-narcoculture","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}