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VASQUEZ MEJIAS, Ainhoa. Femicide in the soap opera Alguien te mira: Metaphor of a misogynous country. Polis [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.44, pp.435-456. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682016000200020.

The night soap opera Alguien te mira, (2007) not only became a fundamental milestone for national television productions because of its high audience impact, but was erected as the first to portray and debate on the different kinds of gender violence in contemporary Chile, years before the incorporation of femicide in the Penal Code, as an article that modified the Parricide Law. By the time its emission concluded, it is considered that the sexual femicide committed by the villain of the melodrama allowed to understand this crime as the result of a patriarcal power led to its ultimate consequences. On the other hand, contradicting the above, the description and classification of the murderer as a sick person, mentally disturbed - as a result of childhood traumas related to the figure of his mother - made invisible the cultural misogyny that underlies such behaviors.

Palabras clave : Femicide; misogyny; night soap operas; melodrama; mental illness.

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