Paul Julian Smith FBA is Distinguished Professor in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Program at the Graduate Center in City University of New York, and was formerly Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Spanish Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television (LUP, 2009) among many other books.

• Introduction: Cold Opens Part I: Spain 1 The TV Mini-series as historical memory: from the 23-F (TVE-1, 2009) to Marisol (Antena 3, 2009) (6803) 2 Transnational telenovela redux: Sin tetas no hay paraíso (Telecinco, 2008-9) (11162) 3 Youth culture in television: El internado (Antena 3, 2007-10), Física o química (Antena 3, 2008-11) (10513) 4 Post-colonial TV: El tiempo entre costuras (Antena 3, 2013-14) and El Príncipe (Telecinco, 2014) (13552) Part II: Mexico 5 Educational TV: XY (Canal 11, 2009-12) (11448) 6 Aesthetic TV: Soy tu fan (Canal 11, 2010-12), Pacientes (Canal 11, 2012-13) (9106) 7 Race on TV: Crónica de castas (Canal 11, 2014) (9876) 8 HBO Latino Effect: Capadocia (HBO Latino, 2008-12)(11442) Conclusion: Love Bites

‘Clear, yet erudite and peppered with witty asides, this book is as informative as it is pleasurable … This book works on multiple levels. Not only does it shed light upon little-known quality TV series, but on a meta-critical level, it is a model for successfully approaching the challenges of television studies.’ Olivia Cosentino, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos