Breaking the Televisual Consensus in Chile: Popular Subjectivity and Popular Revolt in the TV Series El reemplazante

IF 0.7 3区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Latin American Research Review Pub Date : 2023-03-20 DOI:10.1017/lar.2023.17

Luis Martin-Cabrera

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Abstract

This article presents a cultural analysis of the Chilean TV series El reemplazante (The substitute). The series ran on TVN (National Television of Chile) from 2012 to 2013, and it is currently available on Netflix. The show broke televisual consensus in Chile that made the production of TV series invested in promoting dissenting political viewpoints virtually impossible. As such, El reemplazante can be conceived as an antecedent of the 2019 social uprising and as an alternative model of critical TV in Chile and Latin America. The article first examines the mediation between the patriarchal and racist model of the superhero teacher and the construction of a popular subjectivity that disrupts said model. It then deals with the hyperrealist aesthetic of the show as a privileged mode of enacting a social critique on TV, and it addresses the representation of the city and its geographies of segregation as a gateway to unpacking the problematic of education in neoliberal Chile. The conclusion reflects on the abrupt cancellation of the show and the limits that the Chilean production model places on TV series with transformative intentions.

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打破智利电视共识：电视剧《El remeplazante》中的大众主体性与大众反抗

本文对智利电视剧《El remeplazante》进行了文化分析。该剧于2012年至2013年在TVN（智利国家电视台）播出，目前可在Netflix上观看。该节目打破了智利的电视共识，这使得投资于宣传不同政治观点的电视剧制作几乎不可能。因此，El remeplazante可以被视为2019年社会起义的先驱，也是智利和拉丁美洲批判电视的替代模式。本文首先考察了超级英雄教师的父权制和种族主义模式与颠覆该模式的大众主体性建构之间的中介作用。然后，它将该剧的超现实主义美学作为一种在电视上进行社会批判的特权模式，并将该市及其种族隔离地理的表现作为解开新自由主义智利教育问题的门户。这一结论反映了该剧的突然取消，以及智利制作模式对具有变革意图的电视剧的限制。

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Latin American Research Review AREA STUDIES-

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

发文量

137

审稿时长

9 weeks

期刊介绍： The Latin American Research Review is the premier interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Interdisciplinary offerings reflect ahead-of-the-curve research, as well as new directions of knowledge creation in areas such as cultural studies, Latino issues and transnationalism, all of which increasingly intersect with Latin America in ways that are intellectually challenging and illuminating.