Synopsis LA IMAGEN DE LOS INMIGRANTES EN LA FICCIÛN TELEVISIVA DE PRIME TIME
Resumen (Inglés): This doctoral dissertation deals with the representation of immigration in prime time television shows in Spain. The study evaluates 3.000 fiction characters, and it is the most comprehensive Spanish study in the field up to date. The dissertation aims to assess previous studies on the topic that concluded that immigration in Spanish shows is widely portrayed in a negative, judgmental and underrepresented way. The dissertation is divided into four different approaches: three following a quantitative method and one qualitative method. It covers various aspects of the representation of immigrants in audiovisual narrative, including the way immigrants are portrayed, the relations they establish with Spanish characters and the methods used to build them both in theory and practice.