Latin American Television Industries

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John Sinclair and Jospeh D. Straubhaar provide a comprehensive account of television production, distribution and reception in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries, showing how Mexican and Brazilian programmes have dominated in the region, and placing regional output in the context of the global television industry.

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It offers a significant contribution to the growing international literature on the continents media systems and their relationship to globalization . this is an important book in the field providing, as it does, probably the most in-depth source of understanding and knowledge of the role and impact that Latin-American broadcasting has had, not only in the politics of the region, but also in the process of nation-building . (Carolina Matos, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, Vol. 1 (2), September, 2017)

Author Bio

John Sinclair is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Head of the Cultural and Communication Studies Section of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is author of Images incorporated: Advertising as Industry and Ideology and Latin American Television: A Global View, co-editor of New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision and Floating Lives: The Media of Asian Diasporas, and is on the editorial advisory boards of several journals based both in Australia and overseas.

Joseph D. Straubhaar is Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communications at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is author of World Television: From Global to Local, co-editor of Media Now, and is on the editorial boards of several journals, including Latin American Journal of Media Studies.