Latino DNA: cultural keys and imaginary of the telenovela in the border area
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This study aims to explore, from a series of in-depth interviews, the perceptions and attitudes of Latino immigrants living in the United States about the meaning and uses of the thematic and audiovisual components shown in the Latin soap operas broadcast in that country. The results indicate in general a positive assessment of the use of these elements but nuanced by socio-cultural components such as the country of origin, the degree of nostalgia or their level of coupling to American culture. Proposals to improve the contents are suggested in response to these considerations and especially focusing on the expectations of second and third generations of emigrants.
Keywords
Telenovela, Cultural studies, Television, MigrationTelenovela, Estudios culturales, Televisión, Migración
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Acosta-Alzuru, C. (2017). Unsettling a sacred relationship: The mother–daughter–man romantic love triangle in telenovelas. Popular Communication, 15(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2016.1261141
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Baumeister, R. F., & Newman, L. S. (1994). How stories make sense of personal experiences: Motives that shape autobiographical narratives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20(6), 676–690.
Bielby, D., & Harrington, C. L. (2005). Opening America? Television & New Media, 6(4), 383–399. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476405279861
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Brown, M. J., & Cody, M. J. (1991). Effects of a prosocial television soap opera in promoting women’s status. Human Communication Research, 18(1), 114–144.
Brown, W. J., & Singhal, A. (1999). Entertainment-Education media strategies for social change: Promises and problems. In Mass Media Social Control and Social (pp. 263–280). Retrieved from https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/entertainmenteducation-media-strategies-social-change-promises-problems/
Cabañas, Mi. (2012). Narcotelenovelas, Gender, and Globalization in Sin tetas no hay paraíso. LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, 39,3(184), 74–87. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1177/0094582X11434303
Castelló, E. (2007). The production of television fiction and nation building: The catalan case. European Journal of Communication, 22(1), 49–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323107073747
Crespo, N. (2017). Personajes femeninos en Margarita (1875) de Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta. Symposium - Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2017.1349462
Croucher, S. (2009). Migrants of Privilege: The Political Transnationalism of Americans in Mexico. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 16(4), 463–491. https://doi.org/10.1080/10702890903020984
Cruz-Oliver, D. M., Parikh, M., Wallace, C. L., Malmstrom, T. K., & Sanchez-Reilly, S. (2018). What Did Latino Family Caregivers Expect and Learn From Education Intervention “Caregivers Like Me”? American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049909117709550
Eskandari, S. (2017). Telenovela, an Instrument for Democracy. Review of European Studies. https://doi.org/10.5539/res.v9n3p106
Griffiths, A. (1993). Pobol y Cwm: The Construction of National and Cultural Identity. In R. P. and J. W. Philip Drummond (Ed.), National Identity and Europe: The Television Revolution (pp. 9–24).
Hernández, O. D. (2002). A case of global love: Telenovelas in transnational times.
Igartua, J. J. (2010). Identification with characters and narrative persuasion through fictional feature films. Communications, 35(4), 347–373. https://doi.org/10.1515/COMM.2010.019
La Pastina, A. (2001). Product placement in Brazilian prime time television: The case of the reception of a telenovela. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 45(4), 541–557. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4504_1
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Lopes, M. I. V. (2004). Para uma revisão das identidades coletivas em tempo de globalização. Telenovela: Internacionalização e Interculturalidade, 121.
López-Pumarejo, T. (1987). Aproximación a la Telenovela. Barcelona: Catedra.
Maldonado, R. R., Barreto, G. C., & Rigotti, G. F. (2017). Representation of homoaffective relationships in Brazilian telenovelas. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 5(6), 118–128.
Martín-Barbero, J., & Martín, M. B. (1998). De los medios a las mediaciones: comunicación, cultura y hegemonía. Convenio Andrés Bello.
Mayer, V. (2003). Living telenovelas/telenovelizing life: Mexican American girls’ identities and transnational telenovelas. Journal of Communication, 53(3), 479–495. Retrieved from http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/command/detail?sid=e947ca1f-93e3-48ce-a594-fc5651dc44d4@sessionmgr4003&vid=8&hid=4106
Mazziotti, N. (2006). Telenovela, industria y práctica (Norma, ed.). Buenos Aires: Norma.
McAnany, E. G., & la Pastina, A. (1994). Telenovela Audiences: A Review and Methodological Critique of Latin America Research. Communication Research, 21(6), 828–849. https://doi.org/10.1177/009365094021006009
Medina, C. L., Costa, M. del R., & Soto, N. (2017). Latinx* popular culture imaginaries: examining Puerto Rican children’s social discourses in interpreting telenovelas. Early Years, 37(1), 77–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2016.1273203
Mesquita, A. M., & Pavia, C. F. (2015). A Família Homoparental na Ficção Televisiva: As Práticas Narrativas do Brasil e da Espanha como Relatos das Novas Representações Afetivo-Amorosas. Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais, (58), 223–255.
Morales Morante, L. F., & Simelio, N. (2016). Television and identities: analysis of the consumption of ‘telenovelas’ by the Latin American community in Spain. Identities. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1042479
O’Donnell, H. (2002). Recounting the nation: the domestic Catalan telenovela. Cultura Popular: Studies in Spanish and Latin American Popular Culture, 243–268.
Oikawa, E., Silva, L. A. P., & Feitosa, S. A. (2015). Cultura de la telenovela: prácticas de circulación, apropiación y consumo mediático en las redes sociales digitales en Brasil. Chasqui. Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación, (128), 149–164.
Palaversich, D. (2006). The politics of drug trafficking in Mexican and Mexico-related narconovelas. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studie, 31((2)), 85–100.
Pereira Silva, L. A. (2016). Mediação familiar: apropriações, usos midiáticos e socioculturais na telenovela e no bumba meu boi, le. Intexto, Porto Alegre, UFRGS, (36), 63–83, maio/ago.
Pérez, M. de la L. C. (2005). Cultural Identity: Between Reality and Fiction: A Transformation of Genre and Roles in Mexican Telenovelas. Television & New Media, 6(4), 407–414. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476405279956
Ríos, S. (2015). Telenovela Remakes, Transnational Romance. Conference: Cinema at the End of the World.
Rogers, E. M., & Antola, L. (1985). Telenovelas: a Latin American success story. Journal of Communication, 24–35.
Saraceno, C. (2008). Families, ageing and social policy: Intergenerational solidarity in European welfare states. Retrieved from https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&lr=&id=y1JhfZqc4uEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Saraceno,+Chiara.+(Ed.).+2008.+Families,+ageing+and+social+policy:+Intergenerational+solidarity+in+European+welfare+states.+Edward+Elgar+Publishing&ots=22RBgoTzJd&sig=EwDQwNSpUmclQWK
Suzuki, H. E. N., & Mungioli, M. C. P. (2017). Telenovela e produção de sentidos identitários no contexto de imigração brasileira no Japão: recepção, discursos e formas de consumo. Interin, 22((1)), 94–110.
Acosta-Alzuru, C. (2017). Unsettling a sacred relationship: The mother–daughter–man romantic love triangle in telenovelas. Popular Communication, 15(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2016.1261141
Aguilar Díaz, M. Á., Rosas Mantecón, A., & Vázquez Mantecón, V. (1995). Telenovelas: la ficción que se llama realidad. Política y Cultura, (4). Retrieved from https://www.redalyc.org/html/267/26700412/
Aguilera Cordero, R. I. (2015). Chilenas y su identificación con los personajes femeninos de Pasión de Gavilanes. Cuadernos.Info. https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.36.601
Aguirre, L. X. (2011). Sin tetas no hay paraíso: normalizaciónb del cuerpo femenino en el mundo del narcotrafico. Taller de Letras, 48, 121–128.
Amigo, B., Bravo, M. C., & Osorio, F. (2014). Telenovela, recepción y debate social. Cuadernos. Info, (35), 135–145. Retrieved from https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0719-367X2014000200009&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en
Barrera, V., & Bielby, D. (2001). Places, faces, and other familiar things: the cultural experience of telenovela viewing among latinos in the United States. Journal of Popular Culture, 34(4), 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.2001.3404_1.x
Baumeister, R. F., & Newman, L. S. (1994). How stories make sense of personal experiences: Motives that shape autobiographical narratives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20(6), 676–690.
Bielby, D., & Harrington, C. L. (2005). Opening America? Television & New Media, 6(4), 383–399. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476405279861
Blumler, J. G., Gurevitch, M., & Katz, E. (1973). Uses and Gratifications Research. Public Opinion Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1086/268109
Brown, M. J., & Cody, M. J. (1991). Effects of a prosocial television soap opera in promoting women’s status. Human Communication Research, 18(1), 114–144.
Brown, W. J., & Singhal, A. (1999). Entertainment-Education media strategies for social change: Promises and problems. In Mass Media Social Control and Social (pp. 263–280). Retrieved from https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/entertainmenteducation-media-strategies-social-change-promises-problems/
Cabañas, Mi. (2012). Narcotelenovelas, Gender, and Globalization in Sin tetas no hay paraíso. LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, 39,3(184), 74–87. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1177/0094582X11434303
Castelló, E. (2007). The production of television fiction and nation building: The catalan case. European Journal of Communication, 22(1), 49–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323107073747
Crespo, N. (2017). Personajes femeninos en Margarita (1875) de Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta. Symposium - Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2017.1349462
Croucher, S. (2009). Migrants of Privilege: The Political Transnationalism of Americans in Mexico. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 16(4), 463–491. https://doi.org/10.1080/10702890903020984
Cruz-Oliver, D. M., Parikh, M., Wallace, C. L., Malmstrom, T. K., & Sanchez-Reilly, S. (2018). What Did Latino Family Caregivers Expect and Learn From Education Intervention “Caregivers Like Me”? American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049909117709550
Eskandari, S. (2017). Telenovela, an Instrument for Democracy. Review of European Studies. https://doi.org/10.5539/res.v9n3p106
Griffiths, A. (1993). Pobol y Cwm: The Construction of National and Cultural Identity. In R. P. and J. W. Philip Drummond (Ed.), National Identity and Europe: The Television Revolution (pp. 9–24).
Hernández, O. D. (2002). A case of global love: Telenovelas in transnational times.
Igartua, J. J. (2010). Identification with characters and narrative persuasion through fictional feature films. Communications, 35(4), 347–373. https://doi.org/10.1515/COMM.2010.019
La Pastina, A. (2001). Product placement in Brazilian prime time television: The case of the reception of a telenovela. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 45(4), 541–557. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4504_1
La Pastina, A., & Straubhaar, J. (2005). Multiple proximities between television genres and audiences: The schism between telenovelas’ global distribution and local consumption. Gazette, 67(3), 271–288. https://doi.org/10.1177/0016549205052231
Lindlof, T. R., & Taylor, B. C. (2017). Qualitative communication research methods. Sage publications.
Lopes, M. I. V. (2004). Para uma revisão das identidades coletivas em tempo de globalização. Telenovela: Internacionalização e Interculturalidade, 121.
López-Pumarejo, T. (1987). Aproximación a la Telenovela. Barcelona: Catedra.
Maldonado, R. R., Barreto, G. C., & Rigotti, G. F. (2017). Representation of homoaffective relationships in Brazilian telenovelas. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 5(6), 118–128.
Martín-Barbero, J., & Martín, M. B. (1998). De los medios a las mediaciones: comunicación, cultura y hegemonía. Convenio Andrés Bello.
Mayer, V. (2003). Living telenovelas/telenovelizing life: Mexican American girls’ identities and transnational telenovelas. Journal of Communication, 53(3), 479–495. Retrieved from http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/command/detail?sid=e947ca1f-93e3-48ce-a594-fc5651dc44d4@sessionmgr4003&vid=8&hid=4106
Mazziotti, N. (2006). Telenovela, industria y práctica (Norma, ed.). Buenos Aires: Norma.
McAnany, E. G., & la Pastina, A. (1994). Telenovela Audiences: A Review and Methodological Critique of Latin America Research. Communication Research, 21(6), 828–849. https://doi.org/10.1177/009365094021006009
Medina, C. L., Costa, M. del R., & Soto, N. (2017). Latinx* popular culture imaginaries: examining Puerto Rican children’s social discourses in interpreting telenovelas. Early Years, 37(1), 77–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2016.1273203
Mesquita, A. M., & Pavia, C. F. (2015). A Família Homoparental na Ficção Televisiva: As Práticas Narrativas do Brasil e da Espanha como Relatos das Novas Representações Afetivo-Amorosas. Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais, (58), 223–255.
Morales Morante, L. F., & Simelio, N. (2016). Television and identities: analysis of the consumption of ‘telenovelas’ by the Latin American community in Spain. Identities. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1042479
O’Donnell, H. (2002). Recounting the nation: the domestic Catalan telenovela. Cultura Popular: Studies in Spanish and Latin American Popular Culture, 243–268.
Oikawa, E., Silva, L. A. P., & Feitosa, S. A. (2015). Cultura de la telenovela: prácticas de circulación, apropiación y consumo mediático en las redes sociales digitales en Brasil. Chasqui. Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación, (128), 149–164.
Palaversich, D. (2006). The politics of drug trafficking in Mexican and Mexico-related narconovelas. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studie, 31((2)), 85–100.
Pereira Silva, L. A. (2016). Mediação familiar: apropriações, usos midiáticos e socioculturais na telenovela e no bumba meu boi, le. Intexto, Porto Alegre, UFRGS, (36), 63–83, maio/ago.
Pérez, M. de la L. C. (2005). Cultural Identity: Between Reality and Fiction: A Transformation of Genre and Roles in Mexican Telenovelas. Television & New Media, 6(4), 407–414. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476405279956
Ríos, S. (2015). Telenovela Remakes, Transnational Romance. Conference: Cinema at the End of the World.
Rogers, E. M., & Antola, L. (1985). Telenovelas: a Latin American success story. Journal of Communication, 24–35.
Saraceno, C. (2008). Families, ageing and social policy: Intergenerational solidarity in European welfare states. Retrieved from https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&lr=&id=y1JhfZqc4uEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Saraceno,+Chiara.+(Ed.).+2008.+Families,+ageing+and+social+policy:+Intergenerational+solidarity+in+European+welfare+states.+Edward+Elgar+Publishing&ots=22RBgoTzJd&sig=EwDQwNSpUmclQWK
Suzuki, H. E. N., & Mungioli, M. C. P. (2017). Telenovela e produção de sentidos identitários no contexto de imigração brasileira no Japão: recepção, discursos e formas de consumo. Interin, 22((1)), 94–110.
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Morales Morante, L. F. (2022). Latino DNA: cultural keys and imaginary of the telenovela in the border area. Signo Y Pensamiento, 39(77). https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.syp39.alcc
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