%0 Journal Article %T From Provinces to National Television: Celebrity Culture and Collective Recognition in the New Spain %A Pablo Castagno %J Mediations %D 2008 %I The Marxist Literary Group %X Pablo Castagno analyzes recent Spanish television in the light of the profound social and economic changes that characterize the transition to the ˇ°New Spainˇ± of the 1990s. A confluence of factors, including a rapid social realignment and the privatization of the television industry, conspire to produce an ideal laboratory for exploring the ideological workings of reality television. %U http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/from-provinces-to-national-television