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Television Studies

This guide is an introduction to library and internet resources for Television Studies.
  • Introduction
  • TV courses
  • Introductory resources
  • Finding books about television
  • Finding television shows
  • Journals & magazines about television
  • History of television
  • Censorship
  • TV criticism
  • TV theory
  • Writing for television
  • Television adaptations
    • Shakespeare on television
  • TV ratings
  • TV audiences
  • TV advertising
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  • Quality television
  • Children's television
  • Sports on TV
  • Racial & ethnic representation on TV
    • African American diaspora
    • Asian American diaspora
    • Hispanic American diaspora
    • Native American & Indigenous diaspora
  • Women on/in/creating Television
    • Examples of women on television
  • LGBTQIA+
    • Examples of LGBTQIA+ on television
  • Television broadcasting & networks
  • Global television
  • Television in Europe
  • Chinese television
  • Spanish language TV
  • Public access television
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Internet resource(s)

  • National Hispanic Media Coalition logo
    National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC)
    • Link
    NHMC is a women-led non-profit civil and human rights organization that was founded to eliminate hate, discrimination, and racism toward the Latino communities. ... They educate and increase Latinx visibility from their policy work in Washington D.C. to their media advocacy work in Hollywood, where they collaborate, create, and connect Latinx talent with the entertainment industry.
  • Telemundo
    • Link
    A Spanish-language broadcasting company under the NBCUniversal umbrella.
  • Univision
    • Link

Introduction

Spanish language television broadcasting is scattered throughout the library's collections. Below are several search strategies to use in the online catalog to find relevant material.

  • spanish television broadcasting
  • ethnic television broadcasting
  • hispanic american mass media
  • hispanic americans in mass media
  • spanish language media
    This is a keyword search in the online catalog.
  • spanish language broadcasting
    This is a keyword search in the online catalog.

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover ArtThe Handbook of Spanish language media by Alan Albarran
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780203926475
    With the rise of Spanish language media around the world, The Handbook of Spanish Language Media provides an overview of the field and its emerging issues. This Handbook will serve as the definitive source for scholars interested in this emerging field of study; not only to provide background knowledge of the various issues and topics relevant to Spanish language media, but also to establish directions for future research in this rapidly growing area. ...
  • Cover ArtLatinX voices: Hispanics in media in the U.S. by Katie Coronado; Erica Kight, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781138240308
    LatinX Voices is the first textbook that includes an overview of Hispanic/LatinX Media in the U.S. and gives readers an understanding of how media in the United States has transformed around this audience. Based on the authors' professional and research experience, and teaching broadcast media courses in the classroom, this text covers the evolving industry and offers perspective on topics related to Latin-American areas of interest. ...
  • Cover ArtThe Oxford handbook of Latino studies by Ilan Stavans
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780190691202
    At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries of origin being redefined in the age of contested globalism? How are Latinos changing America and how is America changing Latinos? The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies reflects on these questions, offering a sweeping exploration of Latinas and Latinos' complex experiences in the United States. ...
  • Cover ArtUnivision, Telemundo, and the rise of Spanish-language television in the United States by Craig Allen
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781683401643
    In the most comprehensive history of Spanish-language television in the United States to date, Craig Allen traces the development of two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses, Univision and Telemundo. Allen tells the inside story of how these networks fought enormous odds to rise as giants of mass communication within an English-dominated society. ...

Selected book title(s)

Here are some titles for Spanish language television in our collections.

  • Cover artArizona firestorm by Otto Santa Ana; Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry JV 6912 .A85 2012
    ISBN: 9781442214156
    In 2010, the governor of Arizona signed a controversial immigration bill (SB 1070) that led to a news media frenzy, copycat bills in twenty-two states, and a U.S. Supreme Court battle that put Arizona at the cross-hairs of the immigration debate. Arizona Firestorm brings together well-respected experts from across the political spectrum to examine and contextualize the political, economic, historical, and legal issues prompted by this and other anti-Latino and anti-immigrant legislation and state actions. It also addresses the news media's role in shaping immigration discourse in Arizona and around the globe.
  • Cover artContemporary Latina/o media: production, circulation, politics by Arlene Dávila; Yeidy M. Rivero, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry P 94.5 .H58 C66 2014
    ISBN: 9781479828913
    Just ten years ago, discussions of Latina/o media could be safely reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated by Univision and Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political economy have resulted in an unprecedented rise in major new media ventures for Latinos as everyone seems to want a piece of the Latina/o media market. While current scholarship on Latina/o media have mostly revolved around important issues of representation and stereotypes, this approach does not provide the entire story. In Contemporary Latina/o Media, the editors bring together an impressive range of leading scholars to move beyond analyses of media representations, going behind the scenes to explore issues of production, circulation, consumption, and political economy that affect Latina/o mass media.
  • Cover artCuban Americans and the Miami media by Christine Lohmeier
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry P 94.5 .C83 L65 2014
    ISBN: 9780786468942
    This book makes a contribution to the debates on diasporic identities and transnational communication. It provides an analysis of the Cuban American community and its relationship to Miami-based English- and Spanish-language media.
  • Cover artSpanish-language television in the United States: fifty years of development by Kenton T. Wilkinson
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .E84 W55 2016
    ISBN: 9781138024304
    Since its introduction in the early 1960s, Spanish-language television in the United States has grown in step with the Hispanic population. Industry and demographic projections forecast rising influence through the 21st century. This book traces U.S. Spanish-language television's development from the 1960s to 2013, illustrating how business, regulation, politics, demographics and technological change have interwoven during a half century of remarkable change for electronic media.
  • Cover ArtTransnational Latin American television: genres, formats and adaptations by Nahuel Ribke
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.3 .L3 R53 2021
    ISBN: 9780367524777
    This book examines the process of transnationalization of Latin American television industries. Drawing upon six representative case studies spanning the subcontinent's vast and diverse geo-political and cultural landscape, the book offers a unique exploration of the ongoing formation of interrelated cultural, technological, and political landscapes, from the mid-1980s to the present. ...

Other library resource(s)

  • Anuncios comerciales by Carlos H. Monsanto
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #2675
    78 Spanish-language television commercials (usually 30-second spots) for advertisers such as 7-Eleven, Kroger, Nissan, and many others.
  • Resource logoGlobal television industry from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Denise Bielby, Kristen Bryant
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Television was introduced as an experimental technology in the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Americas, but it was not until after World War II that it was widely adopted as a form of mass communication around the globe.
  • Resource logoLatina/o Americans in film and television from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Mary Beltrán
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Latino Americans, also termed Hispanics, as individuals with ancestry in the US Southwest, Mexico, Puerto Rico, or Latin American countries, are widely diverse, even while their cinematic and televisual representations have often flattened differences in their construction of an imagined, universal Latin-ness, or Latinidad. This representational history has its roots in social history and particularly the historical oppression of Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans also historically have been the largest US Latino group.
  • Resource logoSpanish-language television from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Jillian Baez, Manuel Avilés-Santiago
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    During the last decade, Spanish-language television has generated much interest among media scholars. The most recent census numbers demonstrated that Latina/os are the fastest growing minority in the United States, and the ongoing debates around immigration and the configuration of a Latino market heralded by advertisers for its “buying power” have prompted researchers to look at Spanish-language television as a site through which narratives about race, ethnicity, class, gender, and national and transnational identities intertwine. Although Spanish-language television has aired on the mainland United States since the 1960s, it was not until 2007 that the top broadcast television networks, Univision and Telemundo, joined the big leagues of television audience measurement research. The highly competitive rating numbers revealed by Nielsen indicate that Spanish-language networks are consistently in the top ten ratings during primetime.

Selected journal title(s) and finding scholarly articles

Articles and other writings about Spanish language television can be found in many publications. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Issue cover artSpanish-Language television and diaspora in Detroit and Los Angeles: toward Latinx media enfranchisement from Television & New Media by Catherine L. Benamou
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal article
    Spanish-language media have often been portrayed as catering to a “niche” market, because of presumed ethnic specificity and issues of linguistic proficiency and preference. Constructed as such, these media are seldom considered in the mainstream as having an impact on social incorporation, and media and opinions in the larger U.S. public sphere. ...
  • Cover issue artCritical studies in television: the international journal of television studies by SAGE
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. ...
  • Resource logoHAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) online by UCLA
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    HAPI is a source for worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States, with coverage from 1970 to the present.
  • Resource logoChicano database by EBSCO
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This bibliographic index covers a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants since 1992.
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.
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