Satiric TV in the Americas : critical metatainment as negotiated dissent / Paul Alonso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alonso, Paul, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television comedies.

America--Social conditions--21st century--Humor.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

'Satiric TV in the Americas' focuses on Latin American TV satire in order to understand their critical role in challenging the status quo, traditional journalism, and the prevalent local media culture. It introduces the notion of 'critical metatainment' as negotiated dissent, a key concept for the study of postmodern satire.

Contents:

Introduction: TV satire and critical metatainment in the Americas

Last week tonight with John Oliver and the Stewart/Colbert impact on U.S. political communication in the post-network era

Jaime Bayly's El Francotirador: Peruvian satiric infotainment after Fujimori's media dictatorship

Brozo's El mañanero: televisa's grotesque clown as transgressive journalism in Mexico

Peter Capusotto y sus videos: satire, identity, and spectacle during Kirchner's Argentina

Latin America digital satire: critical humor as glocal entertainment in times of the Internet

Conclusions: TV satire as critical metatainment and negotiated dissent.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-063652-1

0-19-087286-1

0-19-063651-3