Abstract

FORERO MEDINA, Nelson Camilo. Medial and Narrative Logics: Transmedialization of Narratives about Drug Trafficking in Colombia. Folios [online]. 2019, n.49, pp.137-147. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.49-9400.

The purpose of this paper is to show the different logics or grammars existing between different media, namely books, television and streaming. To that end, we evaluate three media products about the same topic: narratives on drug violence in Colombia during the eighties. As a result, we analyze Alonso Salazar's book, La parábola de Pablo: auge y caída de un gran capo colombiano (2001); El patrón del mal, by Caracol Televisión (Moreno & Mora, 2012), and the series Narcos (Bernard, Brancato, & Doug, 2015), by streaming platform, Netflix. The text is divided in two sections: the first one analyzes the purely medial differences between the book and audiovisual media and describes the transmedialization phenomena. The second section focuses on the changes in contents when they are transmedialized. Unlike the first section, this one addresses the discursive and reception differences generated from the adaptation of the drug lord's story by the Netflix platform.

Keywords : medial logics; drug trafficking; scripturality; video; transmedialization.

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