Neo-anachronism? The coiled temporalities of South-South media flows

This article mobilizes Jesus Martín Barbero’s magnum opus, Communication, Culture, and Hegemony, towards a better understanding of the contemporary global success of Turkish television drama, known as dizi, in Latin America, the land of the once-mighty telenovela. Hilighting Martín-Barbero’s centrality to my own intellectual project on the transnational connection and transcultural resonances between the Middle East and Latin America, I draw on preliminary fieldwork in Argentina and Mexico, where Turkish dizi have been hits, to revisit Martín-Barbero’s pivotal conceptualization of mediaciones and accounts for forces of global media competition, aesthetic mimicry, and the fundamental problematic of South-to-South relations that got a new lease on life with the success of dizi in Latin America. Ultimately, I probe Martín-Barbero’s “precious anachronism” to elaborate a notion of “coiled temporality” that emerges between different geocultural zones through the consumption of narrative television fiction. … celý popis

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Publikováno v

Media, culture & society Ročník 46; číslo 3; s. 648 - 658

Hlavní autor

Kraidy, Marwan M

Typ dokumentu

Journal Article

Jazyk

English

Vydáno

London, England SAGE Publications 01. 04. 2024
Sage Publications Ltd

Témata

coiled temporalities

dizi

Fiction

Globalization

Hegemony

hybridity

Imitation

Latin America

Mass media

mediations

Multiculturalism & pluralism

South-South media flows

telenovela

Television

Television drama

Time

Turkey

Latin America

Turkey

coiled temporalities

mediations

Television drama

dizi

South-South media flows

telenovela

hybridity

Latin America

ISSN

0163-4437
1460-3675

DOI

10.1177/01634437231217168