Of loves and crimes. Class and gender representations in Chilean nocturnal police telenovelas

  • Lorena Antezana Barrios Universidad de Chile

    Doctora en Información y Comunicación por la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, Bélgica. Periodista y magíster en Comunicación Social por la Universidad de Chile. Es profesora asociada de la Facultad de Comunicación e Imagen de la Universidad de Chile. Su investigación se relaciona con los estudios sobre televisión, específicamente en torno a la recepción y consumo crítico de medios. Actualmente, dirige el proyecto Fondecyt Regular N.° 1200108 y es directora del Núcleo de Investigación en Televisión y Sociedad - NITS Chile.

    antezana@uchile.cl

Keywords: Television, Telenovela, Melodrama, Nightly, Police, Chile

Abstract

Based on the narrative, televisual and hermeneutical analysis of three successful Chilean night-time soap operas of the police subgenre, Alguien te mira (Rencoret, 2007), ¿Dónde está Elisa? (Demicheli & Campos, 2009) and El laberinto de Alicia (Demicheli & Aguirre, 2011), this article wonders about the gender representations that these stories offer us. The results indicate that these soap operas are a hybrid product that combines classic melodrama with detective story. Unlike daytime and evening productions, the protagonists here are from the upper class, the story is fast-paced and dynamic, and plays with secrecy and suspense. However, in a gender reading, it can be seen that, although women are initially presented as autonomous, independent and empowered, they finally end up fulfilling a classic role: that of mothers.

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Antezana Barrios, L. (2023). Of loves and crimes. Class and gender representations in Chilean nocturnal police telenovelas. Conexión, (19), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.18800/conexion.202301.001