Medina, Mercedes

Creating, producing and selling TV shows : the case of the most popular dramedies in Spain / Mercedes Medina - Lisboa : FormalPress , 2009 - FormalPress : graf. ; 24 cm. - Collection media XXI. . - Collection media XXI. .

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The economics of series as audiovisual entertainment products -- Family "dramedy" production standards -- Programming of family series -- commercial exploitation of series -- contemporary family television viewing: cuéntame and Los Serrano -- Dramatic fallacy and the representation of family in television fiction.

This book is a seious and welcome account of a particular television genre and its production and the organization of its topics illustrates some of the complexity of television as an object of study. It is the product of a team of academics bringing different methodological skill to the analysis.

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