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. .
Incluye bibliografía
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.