Gender and power in television fiction: an ideological textual analysis of a historical TV Series

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https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n28a05

Keywords:

Power, TV series, gender, television, fiction

Abstract

Productions carried out during the third golden age of television enjoy widespread popularity today. Within some of the TV series in this category, women who hold positions of power can occasionally be found as in the TV show analyzed in this article, which is Vikings. In this series, one of the main protagonists, Lagertha, amasses great admiration from the female audience. In order to know if this success corresponds to the reality of the character (her personality and the actions she takes), this study will carry out an analysis to determine the archetype of the protagonist and to develop a semiotic study of the character and her power relations with other subjects.

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Author Biography

  • Mayte Donstrup, University of Sevilla, Spain

    Research Scholar of the VI Plan Propio –Universidad de Sevilla (VI Plan of Investigation and Transfer– University of Seville) in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the University of Sevilla. She is currently in the process of writing her doctoral thesis, which focuses on the study of ideological reception of fiction series with political content. Her lines of research are directed toward the ideological analysis of media discourses and propaganda. Likewise, she has also participated in several international congresses within these areas, and has been published in national and international journals.

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Published

21-06-2019

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Miscellaneous of Research articles and essays

How to Cite

Donstrup, M. (2019). Gender and power in television fiction: an ideological textual analysis of a historical TV Series. Doxa Comunicación. Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication Studies and Social Sciences, 28, 97-109. https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n28a05
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