The promise of forever is beyond the clash of class: Analyzing the codes of television in Pangako sa'yo and Forevermore

• Main Author: Sadian, Hazel Nichole S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Television soap operas > Philippines; Television series > Philippines; Comparative Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2915
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study problematizes the ideologies that teleseryes, Pangako sa'yo and Forever more, present to its viewers in relation to gender and social class. This thesis utilizes three codes of television: reality, representational, and ideological, as according to John Fiske's television codes. The reality code examines the codes of costume, behavior, and speech of six specific characters coming from both teleseryes. This section shows that the teleseryes have created or utilized conventional and stereotypical characters. Representation of characters are dependent on the intersection of their gender and social class, and so this also help in identifying the character into a particular costume, or a type behavior, and speech. The next code, representational, examines the narrative structure of both teleseryes, and this shows that there is little to no difference between the two television shows. Through the first two codes, the ideologies that both the teleseryes present are identified: (1) the promise of forever (2) the expectation or the ideal woman and, (3) the stereotypes of the rich and the poor. With all these being said, therefore, the thesis concludes that Pangako sa'yo and Forevermore are not new types of teleseryes, rather these work to reimpose the dominant ideology, that are patriarchy and capitalism, and do not work towards provoking social change in television.