Family models in Spanish television comedy (1990-2010)

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https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2019-1318

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Comedy, family, protagonists, roles, sitcom, television

Abstract

This article analyses the representation and relevance of family models in Spanish television comedy. Methods. The study is based on the qualitative analysis of 46 TV family comedies produced and broadcast by mainstream channels from the opening of the Spanish television market (1990) to the analogue blackout (2010). Conclusions and discussion. The results offer a chronological description of the evolution of family representations in Spanish TV comedy and confirm that the construction of the family within TV comedy alternates hyperrealism with conservatism.

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Author Biographies

Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí, University of Alicante

Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí holds a PhD from the University of Alicante (2013), a Master's degree in Communication and Creative Industries (UA, 2012) and a degree in Advertising and Public Relations (UA, 2007)

PDI in the Department of Communication and Social Psychology of the UA, he collaborates as a teacher with the UNIR, with the UEMC, the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Cela Open Institute.

Her main lines of research focus on the role of women in television fiction and advertising and the analysis of audience activity around fiction. At present, he also actively participates in lines of research linked to gastronomic communication. E s member of the research group Cultural Industries today: production, distribution, management and consumption of cultural products in the information age (IIICCXXXI) of the UA and the Observatory Fiction and New Technologies UAB.

I have obtained two predoctoral research grants from the CEM (Center for Women's Studies, UA) and in 2009 was awarded the First Prize for Creativity in Research, awarded by the Bancaja-UA Chair.

Anna Tous Rovirosa, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Anna Tous-Rovirosa is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and a doctor from the same university. Editor of the book Politics in the television series (UOC, 2015), is the author of The era of drama on television. Lost, CSI: Las Vegas, The West Wing of the White House, Desperate Housewives and House (UOC, 2010) and Mites en sèrie. Els temes clau on television (Trípodos, 2013). Winner of II Prize of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia (2008).

She has been a visiting professor at the Rühr (Bochum, Germany) and Federal of Bahia (Brazil) universities. Director of the Anàlisi Magazine, her main lines of research are television fiction, audiovisual narrative, media convergence, and online journalism. He is a member of the group I recognized research Gone Ofent and LocalCOM, the UAB

Luís Fernando Morales Morante , Autonomous University of Barcelona

Luís Fernando Morales Morante holds a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (201 0), a Master's Degree in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising from the UAB (2005) and a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Lima - Peru

Professor Reader d Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Audiovisual Communication at the UAB, works as a teacher at the University Abad Oliba Ceu.

His main lines of research are focused on the narrative and audiovisual languages, cultural studies around the reception of telenovelas, as well as the theory of audiovisual montage and video editing.

He has written 4 books and more than 35 peer- reviewed articles. He has collaborated in various research projects in national I + D + I and international calls within the framework of the Horizon 2020 program. He has been a "José Castillejo" intern at the University of Texas (UT) Austin in 2016.

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2019-01-01

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Hidalgo-Marí, T., Tous Rovirosa, A., & Morales Morante , L. F. . (2019). Family models in Spanish television comedy (1990-2010). Revista Latina De Comunicación Social, (74), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2019-1318

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No. 74 (2019)

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