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T1 Telenovelas and society: constructing and reinforcing the nation through television fiction
A1 Chicharro Merayo, María del Mar
K1 Socialisation function
K1 Spain
K1 Telenovela
K1 Television
K1 Comunicación
K1 Communication
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB 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.
PB SAGE Publications
SN 1367-5494
YR 2012
FD 2012-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8111
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8111
LA eng
NO 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.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 14-may-2024