Issue 8
(Dis)agreements

World TV.

Hilario J. Rodríguez
ABC
Bio

Published 2009-07-01

Keywords

  • TV series,
  • popular culture,
  • repetition,
  • depersonalization,
  • serial cinema,
  • lack of originality,
  • commercial cinema,
  • creation of social models
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How to Cite

Rodríguez, H. J. (2009). World TV. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (8), 100–101. https://doi.org/10.63700/169

Abstract

Series very often respond to the parameters of popular culture, where repeating a scheme does not pose a problem since it is the only way to reach more people. Hence the degree of depersonalization that usually accompanies them. A series might become a lasting experience because sometimes it extends over months or even years. It turns into a routine about which people discuss at home, with their families or in the workplace. And this creates very stable collective ties. Commercial cinema teaches film-goers to conceive of things, not to understand them. Its aim, more often than not, is working as a replacement for those feelings the human being has been forced to get rid of due to the changes taking place all through the last century.

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