Concepción Cascajosa

Concepción Cascajosa
Acting Chair of RTVE
In office
27 March 2024 – 2 December 2024
Preceded byElena Sánchez Caballero
Succeeded byJosé Pablo López
Personal details
Born
Concepción Carmen Cascajosa Virino

1979
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain
OccupationLecturer

Concepción Carmen Cascajosa Virino (born 1979) is a Spanish lecturer, working at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M). Her main research line is the history of audiovisual media.[1] She has been noted as one of the foremost specialists on television series in Spain.[2][3] From 2021 to 2024 she served as member of the RTVE governing board, and, from March to December 2024, she served as acting chair of RTVE.

Biography

Born in 1979 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona to Andalusian parents, she moved in 1984 together with her family to Casariche (Seville), where she was raised.[3][4] Cascajosa earned a licentiate degree and later a PhD in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Seville.[3] She entered the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M) in 2006, working with Manuel Palacio.[3] She became senior lecturer at the UC3M in 2012. In 2018, she was proposed as member of the RTVE governing board, endorsed by the PSOE. However, the parliamentary negotiations to renew the RTVE administration fell apart after she was voted by the Congress of Deputies.[1]

Proposed again by the PSOE as candidate to the 10-member RTVE board in 2021, Cascajosa's appointment was passed by the Senate on 24 March 2021, together with the other 3 members of the shortlist to be voted by the Upper House.[5] She assumed on 26 March 2021 together with the rest of the incoming board.[6] In March 2024, the RTVE governing board voted her as the new acting president of RTVE, replacing Elena Sánchez.[7]

Works

Author
  • — (2005). Prime time: Las mejores series americanas. Madrid: Calamar.[8]
  • — (2006). El espejo deformado. Versiones, secuelas y adaptaciones en Hollywood. Seville: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla.[9]
  • — (2006). De la TV a Hollywood. Un repaso a las películas basadas en series. Madrid: Arkadín Ediciones.[10]
  • — (2016). La cultura de las series. Barcelona: Editorial Laertes.[11]
Co-author
  • Cascajosa Virino, Concepción; Zahedi, Farshad (2016). Historia de la televisión. Valencia: Tirant Humanidades.[12]
Editor
  • Cascajosa Virino, Concepción, ed. (2007). La caja lista: televisión norteamericana de culto. Barcelona: Laertes.[13]
  • Cascajosa Virino, Concepción, ed. (2015). A New Gaze : Women Creators of Film and Television in Democratic Spain. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.[14]
  • Cascajosa, Concepción, ed. (2015). Dentro de "El Ministerio del Tiempo". Madrid: Léeme Libros.

References

  1. ^ a b "Quiénes son los diez nuevos consejeros de RTVE". Vertele!. eldiario.es. 25 February 2021.
  2. ^ Carrión, Jorge (26 November 2017). "2017: El año de la explosión de las series en español". New York Times.
  3. ^ a b c d Solís, Raúl (9 July 2018). "Una 'fuera de serie' de la clase trabajadora, joven y andaluza, en el nuevo consejo de RTVE". La Voz del Sur.
  4. ^ Romero, Juanma (5 July 2018). "Sánchez salva su test de RTVE... a falta de cuatro plenos para sacar la cúpula temporal". El Confidencial.
  5. ^ Solís Lerici, Alessandro (24 March 2021). "El Senado avala el reparto del consejo de RTVE pactado por PSOE, PP, Podemos y PNV". Economía Digital.
  6. ^ "Tornero entra fuerte en RTVE". El Comercio. 26 March 2021.
  7. ^ Granda, Gerardo (27 March 2024). "RTVE nombra a Concepción Cascajosa nueva presidenta interina de la Corporación". La Razón.
  8. ^ Blanco, José M. (16 August 2011). "Hay que considerar a la televisión com ouna aliada de la educación". ABC.
  9. ^ Gordillo Álvarez, Inmaculada (2007). "El espejo deformado. Versiones, secuelas y adaptaciones en Hollywood. Concepción Cascajosa Virino" (PDF). Comunicación: Revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales (5): 465–469. ISSN 1989-600X.
  10. ^ Rod. Hurtado, José María (25 September 2006). "De la TV a Hollywood". Espinof.
  11. ^ Pousa, Laura (2017). "La cultura de las series. Concepción Cascajosa Virino". Secuencias (45). UAM Ediciones. ISSN 1134-6795.
  12. ^ Varela, Mirta (2017). "Historia de la televisión, de Concepción Cascajosa Virino y Farshad Zahedi". Secuencias (46). Madrid: UAM Ediciones. ISSN 1134-6795.
  13. ^ ""La caja lista: televisión norteamericana de culto", nuevo libro de Concepción Cascajosa". FormulaTV. 18 November 2007.
  14. ^ Coutel, Évelyne (2018). "Concepción Cascajosa Virino (éd.), A New Gaze : Women Creators of Film and Television in Democratic Spain Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, 200 pages". Genre en séries. 7. doi:10.4000/ges.664.