The Territory Image in television. The location of Catalan TV Series

Abstract

The construction of an image of a territory among the public could be related to multiple factors. On the one hand, to the information obtained from personal experiences through the senses. On the other hand to preconceive images that arrived from different sources and among them the TV series. TV contributes to interiorize these preconceive images. They contribute to make very familiar certain territories while creating certain territorial gaps around other areas. In many ways, the appearance of a territory in TV series contributes to prefigure and condition the personal perception of this space. In the following article we focus in analyzing twenty-one series shot on location that Television de Catalunya has broadcasted between 1994 and 2014. The results show how these series were located in a very precise space, Barcelona area, leaving aside an important number of Catalan regions.

Keywords: Identity, television, Image of a City, Representation of Space.