{"title":"Books by Paul Julian Smith","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9783030175382","title":"Multiplatform Media in Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMultiplatform Media in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to treat the exciting, interconnected fields of cinema, television, and internet in Mexico over the last decade, fields that combine to be called multiplatform media. Combining industrial analysis of a major audiovisual field at a time of growth and change with close readings of significant texts on all screens, acclaimed author Paul Julian Smith deftly details these new audiovisual trends.\u003c\/p\u003eThe book includes perspectives on local reporting on the ground, as covered in the chapter documenting media response to the 2017 earthquake. And, for the first time in this field, the book draws throughout on star studies, tracing the distinct profiles of actors who migrate from one medium to another. As a whole, Smith’s analyses illustrate the key movements in screen media in one of the world’s largest media and cultural producing nations. These perspectives connect to and enrich scholarship across Latin American, North American,and global cases.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309519090037,"sku":"9783030175382","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783030175382_ca572f51-e2b4-4e25-97e2-f2222df2f8ce.jpg?v=1786031987"},{"product_id":"9781839025204","title":"Y Tu Mamá También","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eY Tu Mamá También \u003c\/i\u003e(2001)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ean intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time. Its teenage protagonists Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna went on to be major stars of global cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet on its release the film was vilified by established Mexican critics as a coarse comedy and ‘\u003ci\u003ePenthouse\u003c\/i\u003e fantasy’ of youthful lust for an older woman. Paul Julian Smith's lucid study of the film argues that \u003ci\u003eY Tu Mamá También\u003c\/i\u003e not only addresses with playful seriousness such major issues as gender, race, class, and space, which are yet more urgent now than they were on its release; but that the film’s apparently casual aesthetic masks a sophisticated audiovisual style, one which brings together popular genre film and auteurist experiment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmith suggests \u003ci\u003eY Tu Mamá También\u003c\/i\u003e remains an example for world cinema of how a very local film can connect with a global audience that is ignorant of such niceties. Combining production and distribution history, based on unexplored material held in Mexico City archives, with close textual analysis, Smith makes an argument for Cuarón’s film as an enduring masterpiece that hides in plain sight as an ephemeral teen movie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313019629941,"sku":"9781839025204","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839025204_4aa7fc3c-5c3d-4833-8b38-d378acce0941.jpg?v=1786027791"},{"product_id":"9780814352618","title":"Jane the Virgin","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367801926005,"sku":"9780814352618","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780814352618_347d6952-0a33-48c0-8162-c146b0a5e606.jpg?v=1786015836"},{"product_id":"9781399560528","title":"Television Drama in Mexico","description":"This book analyzes, for the first time, innovative Mexican television drama of the current decade. It provides an account of the processes of production and reception for seven series, offering close textual readings of individual episodes. At this critical time for the medium, the transition between national network television (Televisa) and transnational streaming platforms (Netflix andAmazon Prime), Mexican creators, mainly women, have responded with new and exciting innovations.   The book focuses on three genres. First, it shows how the much despised and loved heritage telenovela, addressed primarily to a female audience, has adapted to changed circumstances by addressing once taboo social issues and how a classic broadcast title is adapted for a new platform. Second, it examines fiction series and true crime titles, which investigate the key and troubled topic of the legal process in Mexico. And third, it addresses the key new genre of the bio-series in its multimedia context, focusing on a celebrated wrestler and movie star.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368802038133,"sku":"9781399560528","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399560528_9d53b865-1f95-4e21-a6f9-a3dd9bea7bf4.jpg?v=1786019236"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-paul-julian-smith.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}