Serial genius

Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now, Amy E Wright, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now, Amy E Wright, 2023, Vanderbilt University Press

From our cultural ivory towers it can be tempting to look askance at the Mexican telenovela and dismiss it as a superficial, even trivial storytelling genre that lures a mass audience precisely because it is such easy viewing.

But such snobber…