La espectacularización de la naturaleza: estudio de la serie documental Seaway

Abstract

This article aims to examine how documentaries on nature participate in the progressive “showization” of television formats through the study of “Seaway” (Gonzalez y Rodriguez, 2014), – a Spanish 13-chapters documentary series about the underwater world. To this end, we proceeded to the quantitative and quality analysis of those visual, narrative and sound tools that these products use to attract and charm the audience. The study of these questions allowed us to verify the presence of traditional formula, as well as to uncover those new tendencies that the documentary language uses to embody the underwater world in an entertaining and engaging way – just as required by the new television standards.