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Cultural industries and character composition in children’s animated television series broadcast in Spain

Abstract:

Introduction: Animated television series are one of the most popular audiovisual media formats consumed by Spanish children. Methods: The study is based on the analysis of 432 leading characters from 352 children’s animated series broadcast in Spain television, since its beginning until 2015. Data were obtained from different websites specialised in this subject. As most data were nominal, the statistical analysis was based on chi square tests, contingency tables and coefficients. Results and conclusions: There are significant differences across the animated series in terms of character composition (age, morphology, sex and aesthetic) and factors such as nationality and production year. There is an elite of production companies with distinctive cultural patterns, especially the productions from the USA, Japan and Spain.