John Sinclair

Latin American Television

A Global View

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Latin American Television makes English speakers aware of the dimensions, operation, and significance of the globalization of television in the Spanish-speaking world. Second only in scale to the market for English-language programming, the Spanish-language market embraces not just most nations of South and Central America but also Spain, and even the United States-the sixth largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. This intercontinental space is connected physically by satellite communication, and culturally by a common language and heritage which binds it as both a 'geolinguistic region' and an 'imagined community' which certain media corporations, Latin American and North American, seek to exploit. A similar phenomenon with regard to Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world is also examined, with special attention to its comparable features and points of exchange with the Spanish-speaking world. The book chronicles and analyses the development and structure of the globalization of these markets as a 'Latin world'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780198159292
• ISBN-10: 0198159293
• Artikelnr.: 21763194

Autorenporträt

Professor John Sinclair (co-author of the highly-praised New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision) is Associate Professor in International Communication, Sociology, and Cultural Studies, in the Faculty of Arts at Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction
2: The Autumn of the Patriarch: Mexico and Televisa
3: The Latin American Continent: Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina
4: `The Wealthiest Hispanics in the World': Spanish Language Television in the United States
5: From Latin America to Latin Europe: Spain and Portugal
6: Non Plus Ultra: Latin Geolinguistic Markets and their Limits
Index