IberAClub: ‘Why the whole world watches Latin American TV series?’

A regular meeting of the Primakov Centre’s IberAClub was held. This time we learnt the secret of the worldwide success of Latin American TV series. It turned out that exotic landscapes and Latin American passions are not the only thing that attracts viewers in other parts of the world. Thanks to an excursion into the history of Latin American telenovelas, we were able to identify some of the peculiarities of this genre. Using the examples of such cult series of the late 90s as 🇦🇷 Argentinean ‘Wild Angel’ (‘Muñeca Brava’) and 🇧🇷 Brazilian ‘O clone’ (‘Clone’), we found that Latin …

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