Argentinian telenovelas : southern sagas rewrite social and political reality / Gabriela Jonas Aharoni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aharoni, Gabriela Jonas, author.

Series:

Sussex library of study. Latin America series

Sussex library of study. The Latin America series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television soap operas--Argentina--History and criticism.

Television soap operas.

Television soap operas--Social aspects--Argentina.

Television soap operas--Political aspects--Argentina.

Television soap operas--Social aspects.

Argentina.

Physical Description:

ix, 152 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2015.

Summary:

This work explores the way in which telenovelas (TV serial dramas) give voice to contemporary and historical Argentinian social and political issues. Telenovelas have multiple layers of socio-cultural message - local as well as global - and are invariably laden with appealing drama and emotion, and sometimes comedy. The discussion focuses on how telenovelas reflect society's perception of, and adjustment toward, issues of globalization. They are a means of portraying how individuals and families rationalize and incorporate rapid social and economic changes. The book explores how telenovelas might offer a subversive interpretation of reality or provide a channel of dialogue with the government's political aims. The author challenges the assumption that they are merely a reflection of historical, political and social circumstance. One of the many telenovela examples addressed in this book is whether the serial Padre Coraje constructs a parallel between the current Kirchner government and that of Juan Perón, fifty years earlier. The serial explores the two leaders' relationship with the Church and implicitly presents President Kirchner as Peron's successor. Explaining telenovelas as cultural texts (they are not soap operas) provides the primary basis for this study, backed by Argentinian newspaper articles and secondary sources on Latin American history, Culture and economy, as well as TV and cinema studies. The result is a more profound and nuanced interpretation than hitherto of Argentinian telenovelas. Analysis Enables Identification of the links between the serials' storylines and contemporary political and social events. These popular culture texts brimg new meaning to the Argentininan historical narrative, and for TV viewers puts the processes and effects of economic and social globalization on a local multi-cultural level perspective. Book jacket.

Contents:

Democracy, economic crises and social turmoil, 1989-2006

From nationalization to privatization

The early nineties: reconstructing history, pizza and champagne

End of the nineties: the economic crisis

Identity and memory: re-writing the past

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-140) and index.

ISBN:

9781845197117

1845197119

OCLC:

905600503