In the United States, Latinos are the largest minority group, and their numbers are expected to rise significantly. Despite the rising number of Latinos in America there remains a lack of diversity in Hollywood. Hollywood doesn’t reflect the face of America, with a majority of the industry being made of predominantly white individuals. Television programming is currently attempting to rectify the inaccurate reflection of society. Racial stereotypes of Latinos are abundant in television and media. Common Hispanic women stereotypes, from maids to seductresses, are debilitating and harmful in their generalizations. In the Pilot episode of the CW hit-show Jane the Virgin, an adaption of the Venezuelan telenovela Juana La Virgen, through plot, and
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Latino viewers commonly watch Spanish-language networks; therefore English-language networks are adapting popular Spanish-language shows into English. Jane the Virgin is an example of that attempt. Based on the hit Venezuelan telenovela Juana La Virgen, Jane the Virgin is the corporate attempt at adding Latin flavor to American television. This is not the first attempt of a cable network to adapt a Spanish soap opera as a prime time television show; in 2004 the ABC program Ugly Betty, based on the soap opera Betty La Fea, was a hit with American viewers. The intertextuality of Jane the Virgin enables English viewers to experience a new type of family sitcom, encouraging a wider diversity of viewers to tune in to the over-top, and ironic television programming that is situational sitcoms with a splash of soap opera. Jane the Virgin revolves around the moment when a very normal 24 year-old Hispanic virgin is accidently inseminated at a routine OB-GYN appointment when a replacement doctor is distracted. Queuing the drama often found in the ups and downs, trials and temptations found in Hispanic television programming. Jane Villanueva does not miss a beat as she continues to live her life to her personal standards taking the fast-paced nature of the show in addition to a multitude of plot twists and developments in …show more content…
Television producers often choosing to make their Hispanic women as Latina homemakers or professionals who use their looks and sexuality to their advantage, which fuels the stereotype that Hispanic women are sexy but additionally loud, conniving, and deceptive. Jane combats the stereotype that fuels Hispanic women with her good morals and all American dress. Taking location in Miami, Jane’s wardrobe is appropriate weather consisting of shorts, dresses, and skirts. Jane favors floral and patterned A-line dresses that flatter her fuller figure and is rarely seen in fluorescent, sequined tight clothing. The idea of the curvy and sultry Latina dressed in leopard print micro miniskirt is not applicable to Jane, whose identification is not based on her physical appearance and or physical attractiveness. Jane is dressed like the average white women in her mid-20s, allowing the audience to characterize her as a simple, down-to earth, fresh-faced
Latino viewers commonly watch Spanish-language networks; therefore English-language networks are adapting popular Spanish-language shows into English. Jane the Virgin is an example of that attempt. Based on the hit Venezuelan telenovela Juana La Virgen, Jane the Virgin is the corporate attempt at adding Latin flavor to American television. This is not the first attempt of a cable network to adapt a Spanish soap opera as a prime time television show; in 2004 the ABC program Ugly Betty, based on the soap opera Betty La Fea, was a hit with American viewers. The intertextuality of Jane the Virgin enables English viewers to experience a new type of family sitcom, encouraging a wider diversity of viewers to tune in to the over-top, and ironic television programming that is situational sitcoms with a splash of soap opera. Jane the Virgin revolves around the moment when a very normal 24 year-old Hispanic virgin is accidently inseminated at a routine OB-GYN appointment when a replacement doctor is distracted. Queuing the drama often found in the ups and downs, trials and temptations found in Hispanic television programming. Jane Villanueva does not miss a beat as she continues to live her life to her personal standards taking the fast-paced nature of the show in addition to a multitude of plot twists and developments in …show more content…
Television producers often choosing to make their Hispanic women as Latina homemakers or professionals who use their looks and sexuality to their advantage, which fuels the stereotype that Hispanic women are sexy but additionally loud, conniving, and deceptive. Jane combats the stereotype that fuels Hispanic women with her good morals and all American dress. Taking location in Miami, Jane’s wardrobe is appropriate weather consisting of shorts, dresses, and skirts. Jane favors floral and patterned A-line dresses that flatter her fuller figure and is rarely seen in fluorescent, sequined tight clothing. The idea of the curvy and sultry Latina dressed in leopard print micro miniskirt is not applicable to Jane, whose identification is not based on her physical appearance and or physical attractiveness. Jane is dressed like the average white women in her mid-20s, allowing the audience to characterize her as a simple, down-to earth, fresh-faced