Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain and Mexico

by Paul Julian Smith

Book Overview

Over the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an extraordinary wealth of television drama. Drawing on both national practices of production and reception and international theories of textual analysis this book offers the first study of contemporary quality TV drama in two countries where television has displaced cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative. As dramatized societies, Spain and Mexico are thus at once...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800855923
• ISBN13: 9781800855922
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages