From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America

by Joseph Straubhaar, Melissa Santillana, Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce, and Luiz Guilherme Duarte

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This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed over time in the region. However, part of the programming has always come from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. With cable, satellite and now streaming TV, that inflow of foreign programming has increased substantially. While many in the audience still prefer national or regional programs for their cultural proximity, an increasing number among the upper-middle and middle classes, particularly the young, are turning to the new foreign services, like Netflix, Amazon and Disney for class distinction, cosmopolitanism or other motives. Among the television industries, global, regional and national actors are creating a variety of programs and channels (broadcast, pay-TV and streaming) to segment and appeal to different parts of the audience. 
  • ISBN13 9783030774691
  • Publish Date 7 December 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • Edition 1st ed. 2021
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 265
  • Language English