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Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
Top Insights
Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), xxii, 381 pp.
"In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 years, affecting societal perceptions of the past, historical consciousness, and political culture. While these TV products are usually perceived as trivi
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The politics of serial television fiction: Structural developments, narrative themes, and the nonlinear turn
Bielefeld: transcript (2025), 431 pp.
"Fictional TV politics played a pivotal role in the popular imaginaries of the 2010s across cultures. Examining this curious phenomenon, Sebastian Naumann provides a wide-ranging analysis of the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary polit-series. Proposing a novel structural model of serial tel
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Africa Entertainment & Media Outlook 2024–2028: Resilience and Reinvetion
PwC (2025), 20 pp.
Sorriso amaro: El humorismo en las letras hispanoamericanas entre los siglos XX y XXI
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2025), 271 pp.
"Con quince contribuciones de investigadores procedentes de universidades italianas e internacionales, este volumen construye una perspectiva de los estudios sobre el humor, las posibles variaciones tropológicas y las metodologías que se necesitan a la hora de acotar sus diferentes expresiones. Es
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Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 202 pp.
"Centered around Mexico as a case study, the book explores the production of political entertainment in post-authoritarian legacy media and how political and economic conditions constrain the range and edge of discourse; how political entertainment in social media is shaped by the structure of platf
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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment
HarrisX; Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.
"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi
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Colombia en el espejo: 70 años de televisión
Bogotá: Programa de Medios y Comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 243 pp.
Ni sumisas, ni sufridas: Representación de mujer y relaciones de pareja. Casos: Traicionada, legado de amor y Luz de Luna
Lima: Calandria (2024), 133 pp.
Como a ficção televisiva moldou um país: Uma história cultura da telenovela brasileira (1963 a 2020)
São Paulo: Estação das Letras e Cores (2023), 403 pp.
Watching Competencies: Malay Women, Turkish Serial Dramas and Islamic Modernity
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 101-120
"This article discusses the emergence of Turkish serial dramas as a site for contestation over the impact of Islamic modernity on Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. Despite its popularity among Malay women, Turkish serial drama has been criticized for misleading and confusing the audience about I
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Television Publics in South Asia: Mediated Politics and Culture
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 250 pp.
"Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
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A telenovela e o futuro da televisão brasileira
Rio de Janeiro: Cobogó (2023), 243 pp.
"Em popularidade, as telenovelas são o equivalente, na cultura brasileira, aos blockbusters de Hollywood, aos livros best-sellers mundiais, às músicas ouvidas por milhões ao redor do planeta e aos megashows que lotam estádios. Mas, com a consolidação do streaming e das novas mídias digitais,
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Transnational Turkish Television Production and Consumption
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 3-4 (2023), pp. 193-344
Observatorio Iberoamericano de Ficción Televisiva OBITEL 2023. As produtoras independentes e a internacionalização da produção de ficção televisiva na Ibero-América = Las productoras independientes y la internacionalización de la producción de ficción televisiva en Iberoamérica
Top Insights
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2023), 367 pp.
"Probablemente, el indicador más elocuente del descenso en la producción es que, sumados, los mismos países produjeron en 2022 un 54% de lo que producían en 2012. El gráfico 3 muestra las caídas ocurridas en cada país. A nivel agregado, los niveles de producción de 2012 son similares a los
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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 238 pp.
"This book observes and analyses transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing
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Soft News in Original Videos: Adaptation to TikTok of the Main Spanish Online Media
Profesional de la Información, volume 32, issue 2 (2023), 17 pp.
"Since the beginning of 2020, media around the world have started and intensified their TikTok activity to gain notoriety and reach young people, their main user group. However, as with other previously popularized social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, the platform’s logic is different from t
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What Role Does Media Entertainment Play in Emerging Adults’ Political Identity and Engagement Across Cultures?
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 1445-1465
"In light of the controversial relationship and blurred lines between information and entertainment media, the current study’s goal aimed at qualitatively exploring media entertainment’s role in emerging adults’ political identity formation and engagement. By analyzing 55 semistructured interv
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Grauen ohne Grenzen: Horror in Film & Literatur
iz3w, issue 394 (2023), pp. 22-41
"Wie einst im ursprünglichen Gothic die verlassenen Schlösser des Feudalismus als Orte des Spuks in die bürgerliche Ära hineinragten, so sind es heute die globalen Ruinen des geplatzten Traums von Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit, in denen das Grauen haust: Von den vom Immobiliencrash ge
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