Hacia una contextualización histórico-cultural de 'Brigada Central' /TVE 1:1989): leyendo la transición democrática en España en el drama televisivo de calidad y el género policiaco

摘要

The present paper is an introduction to the historical and cultural context of the Spanish TVseries Brigada Central (TVE 1: 1989). The three main aims of this article are, firstly, to analysethe series according to the characteristics of quality television drama (Thompson, 1996);secondly, to examine the image of the police in the social context of the period and toplace the series within the historical production of the detective genre in Spanish television;and finally, to study how ethnic, geographic and social identities are represented in thisfiction and to establish the links between the series and the Post- Franco Era.A qualitative methodology based on textual analysis will be used in this paper. Besides, wewill use a model of data reading close to Cultural Studies academic field in order tocontextualize the object of study.This analysis of Brigada Central highlights that the series is a precursory quality televisiondrama in Spain that followed the trail of Hill Street Blues (NBC: 1981-87). It also has asceptical look at Spanish police, which wouldn’t be changed until late nineties. Finally, weconclude that the series represents somehow the so-called disillusion with the SpanishDemocratic Transition, which can be seen singularly in Inspector Flores’ character arc.