This paper examines the use of actuality inside Greek TV series as a key element creating a common and familiar ground to be shared with the spectator. Focusing on Greek TV series, our analysis builds on the idea that media contents (and, thus, TV fiction) are not a simple mirror reflection of society but symbols and, more precisely, symptoms. Within such a context, the question that we propose to examine in this paper is the following: What is Greek TV series’ promise of actuality a symptom of, if not a simple analogical representation of the ‘real’, factual situation Greek society is experiencing? By applying a semiopragmatic analysis, this paper argues that the injection of actuality in TV series functions as a strong engagement strategy for the fictive narrative universe that is created inside the series.
Keywords: actuality effect,
Greek TV series,
reality in fiction,
symptom,
truthfulness
Dimitris Eleftheriotis
University of Glasgow
Dina Iordanova
University of St. Andrews
Vrasidas Karalis
University of Sydney
Lydia Papadimitriou
Liverpool John Moores University
Maria A. Stassinopoulou
University of Vienna
Eleftheria Thanouli
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Deb Verhoeven
University of Technology Sydney
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