(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-06-26) Antezana Barrios, Lorena
Based on the narrative, televisual and hermeneutical analysis of three successful Chilean night-time soap operas of the police subgenre: Alguien te mira (2007), ¿Dónde está Elisa? (2009) and El laberinto de Alicia (2011) we wonder 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 we can see that, although women are initially presented as autonomous, independent and empowered, they finally end up fulfilling a classic role: that of mothers.
