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Author Aharoni, Gabriela Jonas, author.

Title Argentinian telenovelas : southern sagas rewrite social and political reality / Gabriela Jonas Aharoni
Published Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 152 pages)
Series Sussex library of study. The Latin America series
Sussex library of study. Latin America series.
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
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 bring new meaning to the Argentinian historical narrative, and for TV viewers puts the processes and effects of economic and social globalization on a local multi-cultural level perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-140) and index
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Subject Television soap operas -- Argentina -- History and criticism
Television soap operas -- Social aspects -- Argentina
Television soap operas -- Political aspects -- Argentina
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Television soap operas
Television soap operas -- Social aspects
Soapopera
Telenovela
Fernsehserie
Såpopera, Argentina.
TV-program, Argentina.
Argentina
Argentinien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782842316
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9781782842293
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