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Chicharro Merayo, María del Mar Socialisation function Spain Telenovela Television 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. 2023-11-23 2023-11-23 2012-12 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1367-5494 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8111 10.1177/1367549412467178 1460-3551 eng European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2012, V. 16, n. 2, p. 211-225 https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549412467178 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess SAGE Publications