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Additional Physical Format: | Satiric TV in the Americas : Critical Metatainment as Negotiated Dissent / Paul Alonso. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 978-0-19-087286-1 (ABES)230580335 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Alonso |
ISBN: | 9780190636500 0190636505 |
OCLC Number: | 1062370597 |
Description: | 1 v. (176 p.) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Chapter 1 Introduction: TV Satire & Critical Metatainment in the Americas Chapter 2Last Week Tonight with John Oliver & The Stewart/Colbert Impact on U.S. Political Communication in the Post-Networt Era Chapter 3Jaime Bayly's El Francotirador: Peruvian Satiric Infotainment After Fujimori's Media Dictatorship Chapter 4Brozo's El Mananero: Televisa's Grotesque Clown as Transgressive Journalism in Mexico Chapter 5Peter Capusotto y sus videos: Satire, Identity, and Spectacle During Kirchner's Argentina Chapter 6Latin American Digital Satire: Critical Humor as Glocal Entertainment in Times of the Internet Chapter 7Conclusions: TV Satire as Critical Metatainment & Negotiated Dissent |
Responsibility: | Paul Alonso. |
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Paul Alonso adeptly surveys satiric television across Latin America, paying particular attention to the genre's ability to mediate between local contexts and global forms. This smart and comprehensive volume fills what had been a gaping hole in satire scholarship. * Amber Day, Associate Professor of Media and Performance Studies, Bryant University * <"All over Latin America, satirical news shows have been gaining audiences not only on TV, but also on digital platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. This book is the first in-depth study of this phenomenon and its growing political and social impact. Alonso's work not only maps uncharted territory, but also offers new lenses through which understand the global phenomenon of satire as political communication in today's world.> * Rosental Alves, professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalismo and founder, and director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas * Read more...

