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Univision, Telemundo, and the Rise of Spanish-Language Television in the United States
In the most comprehensive history of Spanish-language television
in the United States to date, Craig Allen traces the development of
two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses, Univision and
Telemundo. Allen tells the inside story of how these networks
fought enormous odds to rise as giants of mass communication within
an English-dominated society.
The book begins in San Antonio, Texas, in 1961 with the launch
of the first Spanish-language station in the country. From it rose
the Spanish International Network (SIN), which would later become
Univision. Conceived by Mexican broadcasting mogul Emilio Azcárraga
Vidaurreta and created by unsung American television pioneers,
Unvision grew to provide a vast amount of international
programming, including popular telenovelas, and was the first U.S.
network delivered by satellite. After Telemundo was founded in the
1980s by Saul Steinberg and Harry Silverman, the two networks
battled over audiences and saw dramatic changes in leadership.
Today, Univision and Telemundo are multibillion-dollar television
providers that equal ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox in scale and stature.
While Univision remains a beacon of U.S. television's
internationalization, Telemundo-owned by NBC-is a worldwide leader
in producing Spanish-language programs.
Using archival sources and original interviews to reconstruct
power struggles and behind-the-scenes intrigue, Allen uses this
exciting narrative to question monolingual and Anglo-centered
versions of U.S. television history. He demonstrates the endurance,
innovation, and popularity of Spanish-language television, arguing
that its story is essential to understanding the Latinx history of
contemporary America.
A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture
in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan
Carlos Rodríguez
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African American women in the news : gender, race, and class in journalism
\"African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and \"crack mothers\" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates the varied, complex, and often contradictory images of African American women in various news media through detailed case studies of both national and local news, the mainstream and black press, and traditional news outlets as well as new digital news platforms. She argues that previous studies of African Americans and the news have largely ignored the representations of women as distinct from men, and the ways in which socioeconomic class becomes a determining factor in how black women are portrayed by the press. Meyers proposes that a pattern of paternalistic racism, as distinct from the \"modern\" racism found in previous studies of news coverage of African Americans, is more likely to characterize the media's treatment of African American women. Drawing on critical cultural studies and black feminist theory, Meyers suggests that the cultural myths and stereotypes of African American women we see in the news belies a far more complex and contradictory issue, located at the intersection of race, class and gender.African American Women in the News is ideal for courses on race and news media, and for professional journalists and students of journalism who seek to improve the diversity and sensitivity of their journalistic practice\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Watching While Black Rebooted
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Adventures in Shondaland
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Adventures in Shondaland critically explores Shonda Rhimes's meteoric rise to stardom, her reign (or cultural appointment) as television's diversity queen, and Shondaland's almost-universally lauded melodramatic narratives.
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Connecting The Wire
Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002–2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in the abandoned spaces of the postindustrial United States. With a sprawling narrative that dramatizes the intersections of race, urban history, and the neoliberal moment, The Wire offers an intricate critique of a society riven by racism and inequality. In Connecting The Wire, Stanley Corkin presents the first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the entire series. Focusing on the show’s depictions of the built environment of the city of Baltimore and the geographic dimensions of race and class, he analyzes how The Wire’s creator and showrunner, David Simon, uses the show to develop a social vision of its historical moment, as well as a device for critiquing many social “givens.\" In The Wire’s gritty portrayals of drug dealers, cops, longshoremen, school officials and students, and members of the judicial system, Corkin maps a web of relationships and forces that define urban social life, and the lives of the urban underclass in particular, in the early twenty-first century. He makes a compelling case that, with its embedded history of race and race relations in the United States, The Wire is perhaps the most sustained and articulate exploration of urban life in contemporary popular culture.
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Struggles for Equal Voice
While previous scholarship on African Americans and the media has
largely focused on issues such as stereotypes and program content,
Struggles for Equal Voice reveals how African Americans
have utilized access to cable television production and viewership
as a significant step toward achieving empowerment during the
post-Civil Rights and Black Power era. In this pioneering study of
two metropolitan districts-Boston and Detroit-Yuya Kiuchi paints a
rich and fascinating historical account of African Americans
working with municipal offices, local politicians, cable service
providers, and other interested parties to realize fair African
American representation and media ownership. Their success provides
a useful lesson of community organizing, image production,
education, and grassroots political action that remains relevant
and applicable even today.
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South asians on the u.s. screen
How does the media influence society? How do media representations of South Asians, as racial and ethnic minorities, perpetuate stereotypes about this group? How do advancements in visual media, from creative storytelling to streaming technology, inform changing dynamics of all non-white media representations in the 21st century? Analyzing audience perceptions of South Asian characters from The Simpsons, Slumdog Millionaire, Harold and Kumar, The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Big Bang Theory, Outsourced, and many others, Bhoomi K. Thakore argues for the importance of understanding these representations as they influence the positioning of South Asians into the 21st century U.S. racial hierarchy. On one hand, increased acceptance of this group into the entertainment fold has informed audience perceptions of these characters as \"just like everyone else.\" However, these images remain secondary on the U.S. Screen, and are limited in their ability to break out of traditional stereotypes. As a result, a normative and assimilated white American identity is privileged both on the Screen, and in our increasingly multicultural society.
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Bringing Color into the Living Room: Analyzing TV Guide Covers, 1953 to 1997
Many contemporary students are unfamiliar with the cultural history of television programming in the United States. References to iconic series that represented significant milestones in minority representations and discussions of racial issues—such as I Spy, Julia, All in the Family, or even The Cosby Show—fail to serve as useful examples when instructors cannot assume widespread familiarity. The exercise described in this note uses cover images from the magazine TV Guide between 1953 and 1997 to illustrate changing representation of minorities, present an overview of television programming history, and provide an opportunity to apply theoretical insights. Using a web-based archive of the magazine covers, the students can observe the emergence of nonwhite entertainers not only on the television screens but also onto the coffee tables of mainstream American families. This exercise can precede several discussions about racial issues, such as minority representation, cultural reflection, or post-civil-rights-era history.
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Friday Night Fighter
Friday Night Fighter relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports. During the 1950s and 1960s, viewers tuned in weekly, sometimes even daily, to watch widely-recognized fighters engage in primordial battle, with the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports Friday Night Fights being the most popular fight show. Troy Rondinone follows the dual narratives of the Friday Night Fights show and the individual story of Gaspar Indio Ortega, a boxer who appeared on primetime network television more than almost any other boxer in history. From humble beginnings growing up poor in Tijuana, Mexico, Ortega personified the phenomenon of postwar boxing at its greatest, appearing before audiences of millions to battle the biggest names of the time, such as Carmen Basilio, Tony DeMarco, Chico Vejar, Benny Kid Paret, Emile Griffith, Kid Gavilan, Florentino Fernandez, and Luis Manuel Rodriguez. Rondinone explores the factors contributing to the success of televised boxing, including the rise of television entertainment, the role of a reality blood sport, Cold War masculinity, changing attitudes toward race in America, and the influence of organized crime. At times evoking the drama and spectacle of the Friday Night Fights themselves, this volume is a lively examination of a time in history when Americans crowded around their sets to watch the main event.
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