Television humour and preferred meanings in the Catalan identity debate
Martínez García, Luisa del Carmen (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Comunicació Audiovisual i Publicitat)

Data:	2015
Descripció:	24 pàg.
Resum:	This article analyses a sports-related satirical-parody television series as a generator of preferred meanings that may be associated with an ideological context of a stateless nation such as Catalonia, where the symbolic aspect is fundamental to the imaginary-building process. In this case, the research focuses on identifying whether representations of difference exist in the humorous content of the television series and, if they do, how they are represented and whether they propose imaginary boundaries. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis in a satirical-parody television series about sports-related news, this study shows that humour generates symbolic boundaries between two spaces. While one of the spaces is in close proximity to the context in which the series is produced and broadcast - Catalonia-, the other encompasses the rest of Spain. In the same direction, humorous audiovisual text contains preferred and also dominant meanings, and these are expressed by how characters valuate other characters, situations, contexts, etc. The nature of the valuations proposes meanings that express the idea of a positive "us" and a negative "them". Television humour acts as a cultural agent that proposes preferred meanings to the subject, and such meanings become part of the subject's identity process.
Drets:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.
Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Television series ; Ideology ; Catalan Nationalism ; Fiction ; Humor and preferred meanings
Publicat a:	European Journal of Humour Research, Vol. 2 Núm. 3 (2015) , p. 42-65, ISSN 2307-700X

24 p, 1.0 MB

El registre apareix a les col·leccions:
Articles > Articles de recerca
Articles > Articles publicats