Twenty-First Century Trends and International Cross-Cultural Perspective: The Post-dramatic TV Series Model in the United States vs. Spain’s Neoclassical Hesitancy in Television Serial Fiction

Abstract

At the beginning of a scientific chapter addressing the new artistic-dramatic trends of the twenty-first century, in particular the comparison of the television fiction phenomenon in the United States and Spain, we open the portico of this reflection with the analysis of an international situation of a cross-cultural nature, the hybridization of cultures, from a legal and constitutional perspective linked to the development of human rights in the world and especially between the American and Spanish tv serial post-drama. In the midst of this scenario we have just referred to, we examine the postulates and characteristics of the American model of television series, of a post-dramatic stamp, and we compare it with the fundamental patterns of the phenomenon of series fiction in Spain produced for television. While the United States is betting on an avant-garde inspired by popular anti-classical liberties and the narratives of libertarian improvisation so typical of Spanish dramatic culture, Spain takes refuge in a neoclassical dramatic model, fundamentally of Saxon origin, renouncing its own culture and tradition of the Golden Age for the sake of who knows what objectives and at the risk of missing the train of aesthetic contemporaneity. Comparisons of models and cultures, descriptions of (post-)dramatic patterns, analysis and information made available to science for further reflection and discussion.