Open AccessProfugos: new formats and regionalization in Latin American television serial fiction
Author(s) -
Luiza Lusvarghi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ciberlegenda
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1519-0617
DOI - 10.22409/c-legenda.v0i29.26287
Subject(s) - latin americans , opera , consolidation (business) , intervention (counseling) , contemporary latin , history , political science , media studies , art , visual arts , sociology , business , psychology , law , accounting , psychiatry
The resumption of audiovisual productions in Latin America during the 1990s have not onlyaffected the cinematographic sphere, but TV production as well. The latest production aimed at exploringthis genre is a Chilean series co-produced with HBO Latin America named Profugos (Runaways), featuringfour popular local actors and directed by Pablo Larraín of the acclaimed film Tony Manero (2008,Brazil/Chile). Profugos shows that definitely soap opera is no longer the only Latin American fictionalformat, besides dialoguing with the action genre global tradition, also marking the consolidation of majornetworks intervention policy towards the local market