Abstract

Este articulo supone una aproximacion al contexto historico y cultural de la serie de television espanola Brigada Central (TVE 1: 1989). Los tres objetivos fundamentales de este trabajo son, en primer lugar, analizar la serie dentro de los patrones definidos para el drama televisivo de calidad (Thompson, 1996); en segundo, examinar la representacion de la policia en el imaginario social de la epoca e insertar la serie dentro de la produccion historica del genero policiaco en la television espanola; y, por ultimo, estudiar como la identidad etnica, geografica y social se representa en la ficcion y como se establecen vinculos entre la serie y el periodo postfranquista. Se empleara una metodologia cualitativa de analisis textual combinada con una interpretacion de los datos proxima a la corriente academica de los Cultural Studies para contextualizar el objeto de estudio. El analisis de Brigada Central expuesto en estas paginas pondra de manifiesto que la serie nace, de forma precursora en Espana, bajo los preceptos del llamado drama televisivo de calidad en la linea trazada por Cancion triste de Hill Street (Hill Street Blues, NBC: 1981-87). Por otro lado, se argumenta que enuncia un discurso esceptico con el cuerpo policial que la ficcion espanola no revertiria hasta finales de los noventa. Por ultimo, se concluye que, de alguna manera, representa el espiritu de desencanto con la Transicion democratica espanola, singularmente explicitado a traves del arco de personaje de su protagonista, el Inspector Flores (Imanol Arias). [ABSTRACT]The present paper is an introduction to the historical and cultural context of the Spanish TV series Brigada Central (TVE 1: 1989). The three main aims of this article are, firstly, to analyse the series according to the characteristics of quality television drama (Thompson, 1996); secondly, to examine the image of the police in the social context of the period and to place the series within the historical production of the detective genre in Spanish television; and finally, to study how ethnic, geographic and social identities are represented in this fiction and to establish the links between the series and the Post- Franco Era. A qualitative methodology based on textual analysis will be used in this paper. Besides, we will use a model of data reading close to Cultural Studies academic field in order to contextualize the object of study. This analysis of Brigada Central highlights that the series is a precursory quality television drama in Spain that followed the trail of Hill Street Blues (NBC: 1981-87). It also has a sceptical look at Spanish police, which wouldn’t be changed until late nineties. Finally, we conclude that the series represents somehow the so-called disillusion with the Spanish Democratic Transition, which can be seen singularly in Inspector Flores’ character arc.

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