152 | nº 29, pp. 139-159 | doxa.comunicación

July-December of 2019

Portrayal of the journalist in Spanish cinema from 1990 to 2010

ISSN: 1696-019X / e-ISSN: 2386-3978

with a suggestive proposal to viewers: “Enjoy entertainment until you overdose. Forget your miseries, your boring lives, your mediocrities”. Anything goes in a world of screen villains.

In Atilano, Presidente, Sol (Laura Conejero) succeeds in grooming a good candidate to be presidency of the government, loved by the people and the press. At the last minute, the leaders at the highest level decide they don’t want Atilano to be president, so the person they end up with is Sol, the true creator of the character. Faced with continuous bumblings at the press conferences, she finally decides to invent a story for the journalists by saying that Atilano has lost his voice, and she herself responds for him.

The head of the press therefore becomes the villain as she pulls the candidate’s strings to achieve a clear objective: to de-ceive public opinion through the media and create a fake politician.

3.3. Lies to entertain in recent years on television

The predominance of TV channels with rotten villains, with 6 out of the 8 titles that make up this section, have persisted in the last few years of this research. For the first time, comedy has found a balance with drama, with 4 films in which humour takes the spotlight, and another 4 in which television satire masks a feeling of sadness. The role of the villainous woman dominates with 6 females on the screen.

Figure 3: Presence of women, men, and the media (from 2000 to 2010)

Source: created by the authors

In Año Mariano, the program hosted by María (Sílvia Bel) follows the motto, “Alone with María, because life is not only what we see and what we touch”. With no motivation at work, she doesn’t let her bosses know about her apathy and shows herself to be a responsible worker. In a nonsensical story, Mariano Romero hears the Virgin’s voice in the utterances of the