Abstract

PALAU-SAMPIO, Dolors  and  CARRATALA, Adolfo. Docufiction and Social Responsibility: Recreating Gender Violence on TV. Palabra Clave [online]. 2020, vol.23, n.3, e2334.  Epub May 27, 2020. ISSN 0122-8285.  https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2020.23.3.4.

The treatment of gender violence has undergone a notable change in the Spanish media in the last two decades. Encouraged by awareness-raising and the publication of codes of ethics, this evolution is characterized by the abandonment of a discourse that classified violence against women as yellow journalism to address it as a social issue with structural causes. However, the advances in news coverage contrast with the emergence of docufiction formats, which combine the testimonies of victims and their environment with fictional reenactments. This research aims to inquire into how these formats deal with gender violence based on the analysis of the TV show Amores que duelen, broadcast by the Spanish private TV channel Telecinco. The qualitative study includes one season made up of eight episodes that aired between January and March 2017. Using a study card designed with specific indicators of the audiovisual genre and fictional or tabloid television resources, the discourse of victims and their environment, as well as the visual contents, are analyzed. Research results show the persistence of tabloid television strategies in exploiting violence, repeated and strengthened by dramatizations. Such an initiative is far from public service and reapproaches this phenomenon as yellow journalism, despite meeting some formal deontological criteria.

Keywords : Gender violence; television; docufiction; sensationalism; reenactment; deontology.

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