Journalism as a decisive element in the plot of police TV series
Abstract
The media play a key role in the script of Spanish police series. To quantify the presence of journalism, the series with police officers and journalists from the years 2020 and 2021 on Amazon Prime, Movistar, HBO and Netflix, mentioned in chronological order of appearance, have been selected. This research uses a structuralist method inspired by the book Morphology of the tale (1928), by the Russian Vladimir Propp, who extracted 31 irreducible functions or actions after analyzing one hundred traditional tales. This work is based on the self-made template Morphology of the journalist in the cinema, with 70 functions. Ten series with 81 chapters in total that show how the appearance of the press is frequent in the script.
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