Latin American Television Industries

by John Sinclair, Joseph Straubhaar

Overview

John Sinclair and Jospeh D. Straubhaar provide a comprehensive account of television production, distribution and reception in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries, showing how Mexican and Brazilian programmes have dominated in the region, and placing regional output in the context of the global television industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844573882
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/12/2013
Series:	International Screen Industries
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John Sinclair is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Head of the Cultural and Communication Studies Section of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is author of Images incorporated: Advertising as Industry and Ideology and Latin American Television: A Global View, co-editor of New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision and Floating Lives: The Media of Asian Diasporas, and is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals based both in Australia and overseas.

Joseph D. Straubhaar is Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communications at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is author of World Television: From Global to Local, co-editor of Media Now, and is on the editorial boards of several journals, including Latin American Journal of Media Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Latin American Television Industries.- 1 The Development of Broadcasting in Latin America as a Region.- 2 The Dominant Markets – Mexico.- 3 The Dominant Markets – Brazil.- 4 Emergent Producers and Markets in Latin America.- 5 Iberoamerica and the Lusophone Space as Global Television Markets.- 6 National Television Systems in the Global Era.- Conclusion: Latin American Television – Summary and Prospect.- Bibliography.- Index.

Editorial Reviews

It offers a significant contribution to the growing international literature on the continent’s media systems and their relationship to globalization … . this is an important book in the field providing, as it does, probably the most in-depth source of understanding and knowledge of the role and impact that Latin-American broadcasting has had, not only in the politics of the region, but also in the process of nation-building … .” (Carolina Matos, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, Vol. 1 (2), September, 2017)

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