Telenovela

the Telenovela’s Borders: Vivo por Elena’s Tidy Nation,” scholar Adriana Estill analyses Latino telenovelas as a platform where “nationality, nationalism, and Nation are produced and reproduced” (Estill 75). Through government involvement and censorship, telenovelas can create “an ideal space where the ideal citizen is constructed and disseminated” (Estill 85). Racial division is present in telenovelas when the lower class Latino characters have noticeable indigenous or mestizo features, while…

La Patrona is a Spanish-Language telenovela produced by Telemundo, and is a remake of the 1984 Venezuelan telenovela La duena, which was inspired by the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. It was created by Valentina Parraga, written by Eduardo Macias, and directed by Víctor Herrera McNaught. From January 8, 2013 to July 9, 2013, Telemundo aired La Patrona weeknights at 9pm/8c for a total of 127 episodes, replacing Corazón Valiente. It was nominated for and won many awards during…

His context Martín Barbero was born and grew up under a conservative and Catholic-inspired dictatorship that ruled Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939) which implies a divided society and a binary way to understand culture, history, and collective co-existence. Marroquín states that during those early years, the oral narratives about them, and the personal experience growing up under an authoritarian regime somehow marked Martín Barbero’s intellectual trajectory (Marroquín, 2015).…

The classic tale of two star crossed lovers, and no, not Romeo and Juliet, but close, West Side Story. Through music and dance, the homes of American families in the 1950 have been introduced to a modern story of Romeo and Juliet, except instead of the Capulets and Montagues, it’s the Puerto Ricans and the Anglo-Americans. The migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States in the 1950s led to an influx of new community members and as a result, another component of diversity in the “melting…

One of the first ways to sizing the significance of Martín-Barbero’s work and writings about communication and culture can be weighted by the epistemological twist his thinking triggered in the field of cultural studies and communication in Latin America. In short, this spin meant breaking up with the binary ways of thinking, from both Marxism and Functionalism/Administrative traditions. Secondly, the relevance of his intellectual proposal is also based upon the importance he gives to the actual…

In other words, there’s a general lack of over-the-top creativity. That’s where Jane The Virgin comes in, and sets itself apart. This American romantic-comedy/drama TV series, which aired its first epsiode in October of 2014, is based on an older telenovela (or ‘soap opera’) entitled Juana La Virgen, but despite that, each episode carries something unexpected. The storyline follows a 23-year-old religious Latina woman (Jane Villanueva), who is very hard-working, has a passion for writing, and is…

sense of love and family, due to telenovelas being so dramatic and seemingly perfect, all the ends being tied up into a neat little knot. “The dress I want to wear just needs to be altered a teensy bit to bring it up to date. See, I saw a new style last night that I thought would suit me. Did you watch last night’s episode of The Rich Also Cry? Well, did you notice the dress the mother was wearing?” (Cisneros, 221) Many references in the text are made to telenovelas, as Cleofilas compares what…

television show was when the television was controlled by my family adults who only spoke Spanish. Telenovelas, Spanish soap operas were always on the television, so when asked what shows I liked I had to say I did not watch television to avoid having to describe what they were and what they were about. Now I have noticed many of the shows on the English channels have been copied from popular telenovelas. Giving more people to love the stories I loved. For example, “Ugly Betty”, “Jane the…

Sarah Cabral’s work “is as authentic and inviting, as it is sophisticated” -- QUOTE. Born in southern Brazil, Sarah Cabral grew up in a time of great influence from North American pop music and music contained within telenovelas. Despite this, and having moved to the United Stated in the early 2000’s, Cabral never lost touch with the deep roots that exist in Brazilian music. This deep connection permeates throughout her debut, self-titled album, which Cabral also produced. In it she draws on…

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Background of the Study Television drama series have an impact on the perception of both women and men through stereotyping masculinity and femininity. Typically, men are portrayed as active, adventurous, powerful, sexually aggressive and largely uninvolved in human relationships Gilbert &Taylor (1991) and Goldman (1992). According to Doyle (1989) whose research focuses on masculinity children’s television shows typically shows males as “aggressive, dominant, and engaged in…