Serial Mexico (eBook)

Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now

Amy E. Wright (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
302 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0563-7 (ISBN)

Infos

No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narrativestales of glory, of fame, and of epic characters, grounded in oral folklorewith their subsequent retelling in comics, radio, and television soap operas. Wright's multidisciplinary Serial Mexico delves into this storytelling tradition: examining the nostalgic tales reimagined in novelas, radionovelas, telenovelas and onwards, and examining the foundational figures who have been woven into society. This panorama shows the Mexican experience of storytelling from the country's early days until now, showcasing protagonists that mock authority, make light of hierarchy, and embrace the hybridity and mestizaje of Mexico. These tales reflect on and respond to crucial cultural concerns such as family, patriarchy, gender roles, racial mixing, urbanization, modernization, and political idealism. Serial Mexico thus examines how serialized storytelling's melodrama and sensationalism reveals key political and cultural messaging. In a detailed yet accessible style, Wright describes how these stories have continued to morph with current times' concerns and social media. Will tropes and traditions carry on in new and reimagined serial storytelling forms? Only time will tell. Stay tuned for the next episode.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Mexican Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Mexican Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 71 color and b&w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Antiheroes • archetypes • books • Censorship • Comics • Comic strips • communal listening • Consumers • Cultural Production • El Renacimiento • entertainment-education • Ephemera • episodes • episodic literature • Folk Heroes • foundational fiction • group readings • Heroes • historical fiction • Identity • installment novels • Intermediality • Journalists • Justice • Literacy • Mass media • media consumption • Melodrama • Memoirs • Mestizaje • metafictionality • Mexican independence • Mexican literature • Mexican publishers • Mexican Restoration • Mexican Revolution • Myth-making • narrative • nation as family • Nationhood • Newspapers • Nostalgia • Novels • orality • oral legends • Oral Traditions • Pamphlets • Patriarchy • popular culture • Print Culture • Printing technology • Radio • radio plays • Reading Practices • sequels • Sequentiality • Seriality • series • soap operas • Storytelling • Telenovelas • transmediality Introduction: colonial literature • viewing habits
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-0563-5 / 0826505635
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-0563-7 / 9780826505637