Abstract

MATEOS-PEREZ, Javier  and  OCHOA SOTOMAYOR, Gloria. La representación de la paternidad en series de televisión chilenas del siglo XXI. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2021, n.95, pp.51-64.  Epub Aug 30, 2021. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi95.3908.

Chilean television in the last decade has seen a new phenomenon: the production and broadcast of national fiction series that have been highlighted by the audience achieved, by the positive evaluation of the critics, by the social debate that they raised, by the contents that address or for being an innovative and particular product. Such is the case of Los 80, Minero, No, la serie, Bala loca and Mary&Mike that, among others, are productions representative of this fact.

These series develop critical contents linked to the recent history of the country. In particular, with respect to the military dictatorship implemented as of September 11, 1973, and its traces today. At the same time, through them you can reflect on other issues, such as gender representation. In each of the indicated series, the characters of the parents are protagonists and acquire particular characteristics that allow us to wonder about the construction of masculinity that is in them.

The research is based on a descriptive-interpretative approach and a qualitative methodology (Valles, 1999), since it allows comprehensive knowledge of complex television phenomena (Casetti & DiChio, 1999). We propose a narratological analysis (Aumont&Marie, 2009) and gender representation in order to investigate the way in which storytelling options are articulated with certain representations of being father and masculinity, which are dynamized, updated and contextualized according to the characteristics of each series and its content. In this way, the representation of paternity in the six aforementioned series is addressed, with the intention of contributing to the discussion on gender representation in audio-visual production and the study of television series in Chile.

Keywords : TV series; fiction; Chile; masculinity and fatherhood..

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