A comparison of popular TV in English and Spanish speaking societies
Subtitle: soaps, sci-fi, sitcoms, adult cartoons, and cult series
By: edited by Marta Fernández Morales and José Igor Prieto Arranz ; with a foreword by Paul Julian Smith
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780773435957
Subjects: Television programs; Television broadcasting; Foreign television programs; Popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Cuentame como paso : when 'popular' culture entered academia / Jose Igor Prieto Arranz and Patricia Trapero Llobera; title: Gimmick TV : narrative tricks and US quality television series / Concepcion Cascajosa Virino; title: The world of The Simpsons and The Simpsons in the world / Maria Dolores Narbona Carrion; title: Old fears, new US TV fiction : 'It' and 'The other' / Patricia Trapero Llobera and Marti Martorell Fiol; title: US cult TV series in the international market :  Considering the reception of The X-files in Spain / Sara Martin Alegre; title: (Re)elaboration and (re)signification of US TV drama in Spanish serial fiction : the case of Mujeres / Maria Isabel Menendez Menendez; title: Spanish sitcom and the Spanish imagiNation : the cases of 7 vidas and Aqui no hay quien viva / Jose Igor Prieto Arranz; title: The dramaturgy of the comic actor on television : the case of Aida / Marti Bienvenido Fons Sastre; title: Rebelde : breaking old paradigms and building new stereotypes of fat young women in Mexican soap operas / Tania Meza Escorza; title: By way of conclusion, or transnational television studies in the 21st century / Marta Fernandez Morales.