Pérez Escolar, MartaNoguera Vivo, José Manuel2023-04-112023-04-112021Algaba, C., Tomé-Alonso, B. y Cimini, G. (2021). Orientalism and the mass media—a study of the representation of Muslims in Southern European TV fiction. The case of Spanish prime-time TV series. En M. Pérez Escolar, J.M. Noguera Vivo (Eds.), Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society (pp. 221-236). London: Routledge.9781003109891https://hdl.handle.net/11441/144157This chapter analyses the representation of the Muslim world in prime-time TV series broadcast in Spain, a country with a long-established Muslim population and a strategic migratory destination. Specifically, the narratives chosen are constructed to offer a deliberate image of Muslim characters. For this purpose, the sample comprises two TV series which have had a special impact on Spanish audiences: El tiempo entre costuras and El príncipe. The results conclude that the orientalist representation of Muslim ‘others’ contributes to the differentiation between their space and the Spanish/Western one. In this sense, these cultural artefacts help to reinforce national identities and highlight the common traits that countries like Spain, as a ‘peripheral’ Southern European region, share with other EU Member States.application/pdf16 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/OrientalismMass mediaMuslims in Southern European TV fictionSpanish prime-time TV seriesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess10.4324/9781003109891-18