Baroque states : television and theatricality in contemporary Latin America
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation analyses four media events in contemporary Latin American politics: (1) the collapse of Alberto Fujimori's administration in Peru following the vladivideos scandal, (2) the role of television in the failed coup against Hugo Chávez, (3) the recording and broadcasting of Ingrid Betancourt's military rescue in Colombia as part of Operación Jaque and (4) in Guatemala, the posthumous video testimony of murdered lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg. Through these case studies I argue that an emergent televisual paradigm has developed in the region in the 21st century, one that deploys theatricality, video and television as political tools and which draws on aesthetics proper to the colonial and postcolonial baroque political culture of Latin America.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Calderón Bentin, Sebastián |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Primary advisor | Jakovljević, Branislav |
| Thesis advisor | Jakovljević, Branislav |
| Thesis advisor | Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- |
| Thesis advisor | Menon, Jisha, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Taylor, Diana, 1950- |
| Advisor | Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- |
| Advisor | Menon, Jisha, 1972- |
| Advisor | Taylor, Diana, 1950- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sebastián Calderón Bentin. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Sebastian Salvador Calderon Bentin
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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