Jesús Jiménez-Varea – författare

Television serial fiction is one of the most popular cultural products around the world today, and there is much indirect evidence that its stories influence the understanding of those who watch and enjoy it. All the chapters gathered in this collection address the idea that the specific aesthetic and narrative properties of television seriality contribute to distinct ways of conveying cognitive impact in a broad sense: from content learning, to reflection on social and philosophical issues, to character engagement and emotional reactions. The Cognitive Impact of Contemporary Television Series goes through some of the thematic constants of the last decade of television seriality, such as dystopia, coming-of-age or metaphysical drama, making panoramic views and delving into specific case studies, like The Purge, The End of the F***ing World and Undone, among many others. This book will be of interest to graduate students and scholars working in television studies, as well as in film studies, cognitive media theory, media psychology, and aesthetics.

Television serial fiction is one of the most popular cultural products around the world today, and there is much indirect evidence that its stories influence the understanding of those who watch and enjoy it. All the chapters gathered in this collection address the idea that the specific aesthetic and narrative properties of television seriality contribute to distinct ways of conveying cognitive impact in a broad sense: from content learning, to reflection on social and philosophical issues, to character engagement and emotional reactions. The Cognitive Impact of Contemporary Television Series goes through some of the thematic constants of the last decade of television seriality, such as dystopia, coming-of-age or metaphysical drama, making panoramic views and delving into specific case studies, like The Purge, The End of the F***ing World and Undone, among many others. This book will be of interest to graduate students and scholars working in television studies, as well as in film studies, cognitive media theory, media psychology, and aesthetics.

Ideologias politicas en la cultura de masas es un analisis riguroso de la presencia de multiples ideologias politicas en el contexto de la cultura de masas y su matriz generadora: los medios de comunicacion. En este sentido, el proyecto conecta con una larga tradicion de aproximaciones teoricas y aplicadas a los productos de la cultura mediatica, que trascienden en ocasiones la dimension del entretenimiento y acaban convirtiendose en una plataforma de difusion de ideas politicas. De un extremo a otro del espectro ideologico-politico, este libro desarrolla una serie de analisis monograficos de diversas obras que reflejan y promueven en su mayoria un amplio espectro de ideologias, desde la presencia del nacionalismo en series de television como The Newsroom y The Americans hasta el estudio ideologico del progresismo en los comics de Marvel o el analisis del anarquismo en la musica popular, pasando por la presencia del ecologismo o el socialismo en el cine. Todo ello se realiza a partir de un abanico de obras marcadamente internacional, y que abarca desde productos mediaticos estadounidenses hasta la musica pop espanola o el cine tailandes. Desde este punto de vista, Ideologias politicas en la cultura de masas se configura como un proyecto innovador que constituye una obra de referencia para estudiantes, profesores e investigadores que se acerquen a fenomenos como la comunicacion de masas, el contenido politico de los productos de la industrias culturales, o las relaciones entre cultura y comunicacion; asi como para cualquier persona interesada en la implicaciones ideologicas y politicas de la cultura de masas y el entretenimiento.