Preface vii
1 Latin American transnational television: a historical and sociocultural perspective 1
2 Transnational television and the making of Spanishspeaking Latino and Latin American audiences: Sábado Gigante and the politics and economy of subaltern representation 16
3 Neo-orientalist telenovelas and transnational business in Brazilian television (2002–2012) 32
4 Back to the past? Dizis in Latin America, the familiarity of the exotic (2014–2019) 49
5 Simulating difference, representing “quality”: Los Simuladores’ pioneering transition from Argentina to Mexico, Chile, and Spain (2002–2003) 67
6 South American adaptations of “In Treatment”: “quality” TV fiction, glocal forms of prestige, and north-south cultural dialogues (2009–2012) 85
7 Latin American television series on Netflix, local audiences, and the global search for the “authentic-exotic” 102
Conclusions 119
Bibliography 123
Index 133
Nahuel Ribke is Lecturer at Seminar Hakibbutzim College and Research Associate at the Sverdlin Institute for Latin American History and Culture at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
"The case studies that Ribke brings up throughout the book are
approached with enormous rigour in terms of research and
theoretical argument and this is one of the main strengths of this
work. Furthermore, one of the most interesting aspects of the book
is Ribke’s ambition to reflect on the complex political, cultural
and geographical characteristics of Latin America as a
heterogeneous and diverse region."-- Juan-Pablo Osman, Universidad
del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia"Nahuel Ribke’s book refreshes the
literature on transnational media flows in Ibero- America,
presenting a well-organised line of inquiry. It starts with a
chapter that examines the historical evolution of television in the
region over a six-decade period. In this part, Ribke identifies
market size and hierarchies, intraregional political context,
imagined and/or real ethnic and cultural barriers and class
structures shaping national television experiences.Based on his
collection of case studies, Ribke concludes that production,
circulation, and consumption of transnational television in Latin
America is intense even if content flows tend to be fractured by
the challenges of adaptation, and certain intra- regional
protectionist biases that make national broadcasters more likely to
adopt north-to-south, rather than south-to-south television flows.
Such pattern of ‘fragmented unity’ or ‘ambivalent integration’
(119) is characterised by a global media market logic that is
sensitive to competition from neighbours, open to imports that make
business sense, while orbiting around the likes of Netflix and
‘other American
national media corporations’"-- Gabriel Moreno-Esparza, Northumbria
University, UK
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