ABSTRACT
The relationship between film and television has been a subject of study since television was first commercialized on a mass scale at the end of World War II. This chapter focuses on a few specific aspects of their relationship in Latin America through two main lenses. First, it examines the synergies between the two media on a geopolitical level, both inside and outside the region. It then presents the primary political and economic axes of the expansion of television in Latin America and television's importance for processes of modernization and transnational dissemination, in which cinema has also taken part. Second, the chapter presents an analysis of ways in which filmmakers have constructed their relationships to TV. The chapter also analyzes four films (Misterio, Aventurera, The Devil Never Sleeps, La television y yo) that exemplify the aesthetic and sociocultural dimensions of the tensions between film and television in Latin America.
