Resonances of El Chavo del Ocho in Latin American Childhood, Schooling, and Societies analyses the phenomenon of El Chavo, and its images of schooling and childhood, Latin American-ness, class and experience. It is also a rare example of a cultural product that has travelled through Latin America, leaving a lasting impact for several decades.
We analyze the phases that crosses this genre and we pay special attention to new forms of advertising and broadcast that use the most popular sitcoms today.Įl Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas. At that time, its main features, which remain today, are defined. Its origin is in the radio serials and the film serials of the first decade of the twentieth century. Analizamos las etapas que atraviesa este género y prestamos una atención especial a las nuevas formas de publicidad y difusión que utilizan las sitcoms más populares en la actualidad.Ībstract in English: The situation comedy or sitcom (a term that is popularly known in English and that arises from the contraction of the words "situation" and "comedy") is one of the most successful genres within the series. En ese momento, se definen sus principales características, que se mantienen en la actualidad. Su origen está en los seriales radiofónicos y en los cinematográficos de la primera década de los veinte. La comedia de situación o sitcom (término con el que se le conoce popularmente en inglés y que surge de la contracción de las palabras “situation” y “comedy”) es uno de los géneros, dentro de las series, que más éxito tienen.