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Docstec 11250.Pdf INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY CAMPUS MONTERREY DIVISIÓN DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES RECEPCIÓN DE SERIES NORTEAMERICANAS DE TELEVISIÓN EN MÉXICO: LECTURAS DE ACEPTACIÓN Y RECHAZO DE LA SERIE “LOST” ENTRE JÓVENES QUE HABITAN EN MONTERREY TESIS PRESENTADA COMO REQUISITO PARA OBTENER EL GRADO ACADÉMICO DE MAESTRA EN CIENCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN PRESENTA: BEATRIZ ELENA INZUNZA ACEDO ASESOR: JOSÉ CARLOS LOZANO RENDÓN MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN MAYO, 2011 RECEPCIÓN DE SERIES NORTEAMERICANAS DE TELEVISIÓN EN MÉXICO: LECTURAS DE ACEPTACIÓN Y RECHAZO DE LA SERIE “LOST” ENTRE JÓVENES QUE HABITAN EN MONTERREY. POR BEATRIZ ELENA INZUNZA ACEDO TESIS PRESENTADA A LA DIVISIÓN DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES ESTE TRABAJO ES REQUISITO PARCIAL PARA OBTENER EL TÍTULO DE MAESTRO EN CIENCIAS CON ESPECIALIDAD EN COMUNICACIÓN INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY MAYO DEL 2011 INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY PROGRAMA DE GRADUADOS DE LA DIVISIÓN DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES Los miembros del comité de esta tesis recomendamos que la presente tesis de la Lic. Beatriz Elena Inzunza Acedo sea aceptada como requisito parcial para obtener el grado académico de: Maestra en Ciencias con especialidad en Comunicación Comité de tesis SINODAL Dra. Alma Elena Gutiérrez Leyton SINODAL Dra. Alma Elena Gutiérrez Leyton Directora de la Maestría en Comunicación MAYO DEL 2011 Agradecimientos Al amado A mi mamá A mi familia: Antonio, Coki, Diego, Tone y Rubén A mis amigos: Aleyda, Apolo, Branko, Carla, Isis, Oscar, Raúl, Tania y Yedid Marilú, Meche, Mirta y Sandra A mi padrino académico, “el Doc” José Carlos Lozano A mis futuros colegas, Dres. Alma, Claudia, Francisco, Gabriela y Omar A un invitado especial, Dr. Guillermo Orozco A El Maestro, Luis Eugenio Espinosa A mis conejillos de indias, Ayelen, los del Observatorio UNLP, CECU y Celu Al té chai latte del Starbucks A mis sujetos de estudio A la Verdad Resumen ....................................................................................................... 9 Introducción ................................................................................................... 10 Marco de Referencia I. La Televisión en la Lupa de Estudios Culturales ..................... 14 a. Estudios de Recepción ............................................................ 18 b. La(s) Audiencia(s) ................................................................... 22 i. Audiencias por perfil demográfico. ............................... 22 ii. Respecto a Lost. ........................................................... 23 II. Televisión Norteamericana ...................................................... 26 a. Acerca de Series de Televisión Norteamericanas ................... 27 b. Acerca de las Series de Culto ................................................. 28 III. Lost .......................................................................................... 30 a. Contenido e Intertextualidad .................................................... 30 b. Personajes y Estereotipos ....................................................... 33 c. Producción ............................................................................... 36 d. Ranking y Audiencia ................................................................ 38 Método .......................................................................................................... 40 I. Revisión General de Contenido .................................................... 40 II. Grupos de discusión ..................................................................... 44 a. Pre-planeación ........................................................................ 44 b. Definición de Grupos de Discusión e Instrumento .................. 46 c. Instrumento para Grupos de Enfoque ..................................... 47 i. Presentación. ................................................................ 47 ii. Rutinas respecto a Lost. ............................................... 47 iii. Opiniones generales. .................................................... 48 iv. Contenido. .................................................................... 48 v. Cierre. ........................................................................... 49 Resultados .................................................................................................... 51 I. Consumo de la Serie ............................................................... 52 II. Consideraciones teóricas: Entre Amigos, Personajes y Promotores Ideológicos .............................................................................. 55 a. Aceptación Ingenua ........................................................... 57 b. Aceptación Sofisticada ....................................................... 59 c. Rechazo Ingenuo ............................................................... 60 d. Rechazo Sofisticado .......................................................... 62 e. Distanciamiento .................................................................. 63 f. Deconstrucción .................................................................. 65 g. Apelación a la Creatividad y Horizonte de Expectativas .... 67 h. Otras Reflexiones ............................................................... 69 III. Primer Objetivo: De los Mensajes Hegemónicos y Alternativos ........................................................................... 71 a. De Género .......................................................................... 72 b. De Diversidad Cultural ....................................................... 75 c. De Creencias ..................................................................... 77 d. De Otros ............................................................................. 80 IV. Segundo Objetivo: De los Personajes y Estereotipos ............. 82 a. “Live together, die alone” –Jack Shepard .......................... 82 b. “You all, everybody!” –Charlie Pace ................................... 85 c. “Don’t tell me what I can’t do!” –John Locke ...................... 87 d. “Please don’t give up on us” –Claire Littleton ..................... 89 e. “Hate to break it to ya, but the ocean is not going to take your Gold Card…” –Boone Carlisle y Shannon Rutherford ....... 91 f. “Dude…” –Hugo Reyes, Hurley ......................................... 92 g. “It belonged to the man I loved… it belonged to the man I killed” -Kate Austen ...................................................................... 95 h. “There’s a new sheriff in town, boys” –James Ford, Sawyer ........................................................................................... 97 i. “My name is Sayid Jarrah, and I am a torturer” .................. 99 j. “Why would I help the son of a bitch who kidnapped my son?” – Michael Dawson y Walter Lloyd ......................................... 101 k. “Those pants don’t make you look fat” –Jin Soo Kwon y Sun Paik .................................................................................... 102 l. “He has a thing for mind games…” –Benjamin Linus ......... 105 m. “It’s stressful being an Other” –Juliet Burke ....................... 107 n. “I’ll see you in another life, brother!” –Desmond David Hume ................................................................................................. 108 o. Otros personajes (pero no de los Otros) ............................ 110 i. Jacob y el hombre de negro. ................................... 110 ii. Nikki y Paolo. ........................................................... 111 iii. Sr. Eko. .................................................................... 111 iv. Richard Alpert. ......................................................... 112 v. Rose y Bernard. ...................................................... 113 vi. Danielle Rousseau. ................................................. 114 vii. Ana Lucía. ............................................................... 114 viii. Ilana, Dogen, Mikhail. .............................................. 115 V. Tercer Objetivo: Del Contenido Intertextual ............................ 116 a. Los Huevos de Pascua ...................................................... 117 b. Sawyerismos ...................................................................... 120 c. Con Lost por sí mismo ....................................................... 122 Conclusiones ................................................................................................. 124 Referencias ................................................................................................... 147 Apéndices Transcripción 1. ............................................................................................. 150 Transcripción 2 .............................................................................................. 185 Transcripción 3 .............................................................................................. 208 Transcripción 4 .............................................................................................. 233 Transcripción 5 .............................................................................................. 260 Vita ................................................................................................................ 274 9 Resumen La presente tesis es un estudio de corte cualitativo que analiza la recepción que tuvo la serie norteamericana Lost desde la perspectiva de Estudios Culturales.
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