Tackling the Issues: Meaning Making in a Telenovela

@article{AcostaAlzuru2003TacklingTI,
  title={Tackling the Issues: Meaning Making in a Telenovela},
  author={Carolina Acosta-Alzuru},
  journal={Popular Communication},
  year={2003},
  volume={1},
  pages={193 - 215}
}
This article focuses on a Venezuelan telenovela, El País de las Mujeres (The Country of Women), broadcast to high ratings in Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Puerto Rico, and the United States. Drawing on feminist media studies and cultural studies, I conducted textual analysis of the serial and in-depth interviews with the production team and audience members. I analyzed the production, mise-en-scene, and consumption of the representations of sexual harassment, domestic abuse, abortion, and… 
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