Una escatología de la narcotelenovela: visiones y versiones

Abstract

This essay explores the inheritances that the colombian narcotelenovela received from three different narrative aspects: melodrama, thriller and neo-police. Through the rescue of these inheritances, conceptualized from the academy, we will see the articulation and transformation of a popular genre into a specific product that tried to narrate day by day the flip side of a hegemonic story that, once exhausted, gave way to its own parody. The result is that narcotelenovela are a conceptually complex subgenre, but also capable of opening a democratic reflection on ignored responsibilities. The essay concludes that this exercise has allowed the telenovela, understood as an entertainment narrative, to advance in the reelaboration of a pending chapter in the history of Colombia and, on the other hand, to extend this demystifying analysis to the biographical series, which have come replace and/or continue the narcotelenovelas in television offer.