Television serial fiction in Spain : between deregulation and the analogue switch-off (1990-2010)
Lacalle Zalduendo, María Rosario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Simelio i Solà, Núria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Date:	2019
Description:	16 pàg.
Abstract:	This article examines the transformation of television serial fiction in Spain from deregulation and the early stages of private television to the dawn of the digital era (1990-2010). The adaptation of Latin-American telenovelas and English-speaking soap operas to the local context brought traditional Spanish costumbrismo in television fiction up to date. Using this as a starting point, the study identifies four stages of the long-running serial format in Spain that demonstrate its capacity to adapt to a double logic of transnationalization maintaining proximity to regional markets alongside a process of gradual adjustment to the changing social, cultural and economic context. The consolidation of democracy in Spain and successive Socialist administrations (1982-1990) favoured the renewal of themes from classical melodrama with the inclusion of issues until then barely addressed, including women's liberation, sexuality and the recovery of historical memory: topics that have become the mainstay of Spanish television serial fiction in the twenty-first century.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Costumbrismo ; History of television ; Melodrama ; Soap operas ; Spanish television ; Telenovelas ; TV serial format
Published in:	Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 96 Núm. 8 (2019) , p. 1273-1288, ISSN 1478-3428

DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2019.1648022

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