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Satiric TV in the Americas by Paul Alonso, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Satiric TV in the Americas by Paul Alonso, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Satiric TV in the Americas by Paul Alonso, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Paul Alonso

Satiric TV in the Americas by Paul Alonso, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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In a time of global infotainment, the crisis of modern journalism, the omnipresence of celebrity culture and reality TV, and the colonization of public discourse by media spectacle and entertainment, postmodern satiric media have emerged as prominent critical voices playing an unprecedentedrole at the heart of public debate. Indeed, satiric media has filled gaps left not only by traditional media but also by weak social institutions and discredited political elites. In Satiric TV in the Americas, Paul Alonso analyzes the most influential satiric TV shows in the Americas - focusing onshows in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Chile and the United States - in order to understand their critical role in challenging the status quo, traditional journalism, and the prevalent local media culture. Alonso illuminates the phenomenon of satire as resistance and negotiation in publicdiscourse, the role of entertainment media as a site where socio-political tensions are played out, and the changing notions of journalism in today's democratic societies. Introducing the notion of "critical metatainment" - a transgressive, self-referential reaction to the process of tabloidization and the cult of celebrity in the media spectacle era - Satiric TV in the Americas is the first book to map, contextualize, and analyze relevant cases to understand therelation between political information, social and cultural dissent, critical humor, and entertainment in the region. Evaluating contemporary satiric media as a consequence of the collapse of modernity and its arbitrary dichotomies, Satiric TV in the Americas also shows that, as satiric formatstravel to a particular national context, they are appropriated in different ways and adapted to local circumstances, with distinct consequences. | Satiric TV in the Americas by Paul Alonso, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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