Historical Fiction in Iberoamerican Television 2000-2012 brings together the work of academics who study the production of historical fiction on television in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Spain and Mexico. Through approaches from the social sciences, visual studies, and narrativization, this book contributes to an understanding of series, telenovelas and telefilms as dynamic and relevant elements of ongoing construction of collective identities and cultural memory. Attending to the intersections of history and memory, and to the process of the audiovisual representation of the past, television becomes a vehicle through which our established concepts of history and national heroes are highlighted, questioned and transformed.
Ãngeles RodrÃguez Cadena, Ph.D. (2002), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Spanish at Southwestern University. She has published articles on historical fiction in Mexican television including The National Past as Fictional Narrative, or History is a soap opera.
Ãngeles RodrÃguez Cadena Ph.D. (2002), University of Michigan, es Profesora Asociada en Southwestern University. Ha publicado artÃculos sobre la ficción histórica en la televisión mexicana, incluyendo El pasado nacional como narrativa de ficción o la historia es una telenovela.
Pertinent reading for academics and the general public with an interest in contemporary historical fiction on television and in the cultures of Spanish speaking countries.