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La cultura de las series
The television series has become one of the most relevant cultural products of contemporary times. Some television series are now the object of philosophical analysis, opinion pieces, doctoral theses, and even references in political debates--mainly North American series, but the vindication of the television series is slowly arriving in Europe, and especially in Spain. But why and how has the television series gained this position in our cultural space? This study attempts to answer these questions by exploring different aspects of the culture of the television series and explaining how the ways the ways in which we produce and consume television have changed. The goal of the book is to examine how the television series claims legitimacy, with the premise that this inquiry will reveal aspects of the manner in which we construct cultural hierarchies in our current period of social transformation.
A New Gaze
This book deepens the understanding of the work carried out by professional women in Spanish film and television since the arrival of democracy, a period of radical changes that saw an emergence of female talent. Although most of the literature on women and media deals with female film directors, this book also addresses television, a medium where the presence of women was significant throughout this period. This book makes an important contribution to the study of the history of women in Spanish media, focusing on the work of some well-known names, while also rescuing from oblivion others now forgotten. It brings together scholars from Spain, the United States and Ireland to analyze films a...
Análisis de la ficción televisiva española
"Esta obra es pionera en la bibliografía española, por lo que aspira a convertir se en referencia para el estudio de la ficción televisiva en España. En ella, una selección de especialistas plantea, de forma completa y metódica, un análisis de este objeto de investigación desde diferentes perspectivas. Este estudio del ámbito televisivo se ubica dentro de unas coordenadas espaciales y temporales muy concretas: la España del siglo XXI. Con una perspectiva multidisciplinar de investigación, se busca analizar la ficción televisiva retomando antecedentes, explicando marcos teóricos, indicando las herramientas metodológicas pertinentes y brindando las referencias bibliográficas en ...
A New Gaze
This book deepens the understanding of the work carried out by professional women in Spanish film and television since the arrival of democracy, a period of radical changes that saw an emergence of female talent. Although most of the literature on women and media deals with female film directors, this book also addresses television, a medium where the presence of women was significant throughout this period. This book makes an important contribution to the study of the history of women in Spanish media, focusing on the work of some well-known names, while also rescuing from oblivion others now forgotten. It brings together scholars from Spain, the United States and Ireland to analyze films a...
A European Television Fiction Renaissance
This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories. Combining a media-production approach with a textual and audience analysis, the volume offers a complex, stratified, systemic view of ongoing aesthetic, sociocultural and industrial developments in contemporary European TV. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book first offers an overview of the industrial, policy and cultural context for the renaissance of European television drama over the past decade, based on original compa...
NBC
Spanning eight decades from the beginnings of commercial radio to the current era of international consolidation and emerging digital platforms, this pioneering volume illuminates the entire course of American broadcasting by offering the first comprehensive history of a major network. Bringing together wide-ranging original articles by leading scholars and industry insiders, it offers a comprehensive view of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) that brings into focus the development of this key American institution and the ways that it has intersected with, and influenced, the central events of our times. Programs, policy, industry practices and personnel, politics, audiences, marketing,...
Middlebrow Cinema
Middlebrow Cinema challenges an often uninterrogated hostility to middlebrow culture that frequently dismisses it as conservative, which it often is not, and feminized or middle-class, which it often is. The volume defines the term relationally against shifting concepts of ‘high’ and ‘low’, and considers its deployment in connection with text, audience and institution. In exploring the concept of the middlebrow, this book recovers films that were widely meaningful to contemporary audiences, yet sometimes overlooked by critics interested in popular and arthouse extremes. It also addresses the question of socially-mobile audiences, who might express their aspirations through film-watch...
La Caja lista
Tras muchos años viviendo en una semioscuridad, la ficción televisiva norteamericana en España está de moda. La práctica totalidad de la producción llega aquí en tiempo récord a través de canales generalistas y de pago, en prime time o en horarios laterales. Cuenta con un público fiel y mucha cobertura en la prensa. Pero a pesar de vivir una explosión de calidad y variedad insólita, la ficción televisiva norteamericana prácticamente carece de los estudios críticos que son tan comunes en la producción cinematográfica que nos llega de Hollywood. Planteando este libro, Concepción Cascajosa Virino, doctora en Comunicación Audiovisual (con Premio Extraordinario) y profesora en ...
I Spit On Your Celluloid
Slumber Party Massacre. Pet Sematary. Near Dark. American Psycho... These horror movies have heavily contributed to pop culture and are loved by horror fans everywhere. But so many others have been forgotten by history. From the first silent reels to modern independent films, in this book you’ll discover the creepy, horrible, grotesque, beautiful, wrong, good, and fantastic — and the one thing they share in common. This is the true history of women directing horror movies. Having conducted hundreds of interviews and watched thousands of horror films, Heidi Honeycutt defines the political and cultural forces that shape the way modern horror movies are made by women. The women’s rights a...
Interrogating The Shield
When The Shield first appeared on US television in March 2002, it broke ratings records with the highest audience-rated original series premiere in cable history. In the course of its subsequent seven-season run, the show went on to win international acclaim for its abrasive depiction of an urban American dystopia and the systemic political and juridical corruption feeding it. The first book dedicated to the analysis of this immensely successful series, Interrogating "The Shield" brings together ten critical essays, written from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives. Topics range from an exploration of the series’ derivation, genre, and production, to expositions of the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of the show. As may be expected from a multiauthored collection, this volume does not seek to present a homogenized account of The Shield. The show is variously applauded and critiqued. In their critical variety, however, the essays in this book are a testament to the cultural significance and creative complexity of the series. As such, they are a reminder of the renewed power of quality television drama today.
