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Chicharro Merayo, María del Mar 2023-11-23T12:44:35Z 2023-11-23T12:44:35Z 2012-12 1367-5494 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8111 10.1177/1367549412467178 1460-3551 This study focuses on certain aspects of the socialising function exerted by the medium of television. More specifically, it examines in detail some of the televisual strategies used by Spanish public television to reinforce the idea of Spain as ‘state’ and ‘nation’. To achieve this, the study analyses two telenovelas produced in Spain, La Señora (The Lady) and Amar en tiempos revueltos (Loving in Troubled Times), which represent the adaptation of the genre to the cultural characteristics of its target audience. Although both series adhere to the principal rules of this melodramatic formula, they propose, in a similar way, an exercise of interpreting the country’s recent history. They explain and interpret the past of this society, thus justifying the collective present day. The analysis of both texts allows us to identify some of the semantic keys used today by the television media to evoke and legitimate the idea of the Spanish nation. This work is part of the following research projects: ‘Cultura audiovisual y representaciones de género en España: mensajes, consumo y apropiación juvenil de la ficción televisiva y los videojuegos’ (Audiovisual culture and gender portrayal in Spain: messages, consumption and appropriation of television fiction and video games by the young) ref. FEM2011-27381, financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain; and the Complutense research group ‘Historia y Estructura de la Comunicación y el Entretenimiento’ (History and structure of media and entertainment), ref. 940439. application/pdf eng SAGE Publications European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2012, V. 16, n. 2, p. 211-225 https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549412467178 Socialisation function Spain Telenovela Television Comunicación Sociología Communication Sociology Telenovelas and society: constructing and reinforcing the nation through television fiction info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess European Journal of Cultural Studies 16 2 211 225