Exploring the Spanish youth audience’s interpretation of loving relationships

Abstract

This study examines the extent to which Spanish youth audiences appropriate television fiction and engage in the acceptance and construction of loving stereotypes. It specifically looks at how they identify different kinds of loving relationships. It also explores the intertextual and extratextual interactions they establish in their interpretations. The methodology undertaken is the focus group, and the sample is university students from four different faculties and universities in Spain. The series chosen as a corpus are two from the United States and one from Spain. Interpretive differences and similarities were studied according to the gender and education of the subjects. Finally, a reflection is made on how youth audiences interact in terms of gender and sexual identity markers in the representations of the loving relationships in the series studied.

Amor romántico, fidelidad y happy endings: percepción del reality TV show La isla de las tentaciones por la juventud española

“…(Banijay Group, 2020), todo ello con cámaras las 24 horas y actividades festivas organizadas por producción con el objetivo de poner a prueba la relación de pareja. La temática de este programa muestra la prevalencia en el contexto mediático del amor romántico sobre otros modelos amorosos (Aran-Ramspott et al, 2015;Blanco Ruiz, 2018;Illouz, 2014). El concepto de pareja de La isla de las tentaciones está basado en la heterosexualidad y los mitos del amor romántico, el relato del programa gira de forma central en torno al mito de la fidelidad para poner a prueba la relación de varias parejas heterosexuales, en la que cada pareja recibe la atención de los 'tentadores' y las 'tentadoras' durante dos semanas (Carpentier, 2006, p. 135).…”