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| Author(s): |
Mário Sérgio Teodoro da Silva Junior
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Araraquara. 2017-05-30. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara |
| Defense date: | 2017-04-28 |
| Advisor: | Arnaldo Cortina |
| Abstract | |
Given the wide interest addressed to the study of syncretic texts and media in general by Linguistics and other language fields that discuss how those texts signify and how to systematize their inner mechanisms, we have decided to mature that debate in the present work. Our corpus is composed by animated films by Walt Disney due their popularity and the intensity with which they relate to society and, therefore, can present many characteristics of nowadays and previous decades culture. Thus, we present both a precious subject to discursive semiotics – syncretic text – and another one common to all discourse theories – style and society. We selected four famous titles from the Studios. Three of them – The little mermaid, Beauty and the beast and Aladdin, released, respectively, in 1989, 1991 and 1992, belong to the musical generation known as Disney Renascence. The fourth film, Frozen, 2013, seems to reclaim the musical style and conquer positively the public, putting Disney on the spotlight once more. Besides meaning’s immanent aspects that come the way, the main challenge is to deal with questions relating to enunciation as a totality of enunciates, establishing the relation among them. Hence, the only way is to go through authorship subject, searching for a definition for the Disney enunciative style, with its own discursive and textual isotopies that round the musical issue. At last, we can define a strongly American Disney style, closely linked to the American Dream ideology, that mobilizes its formants by a general structure of amplification and attenuation in the Subject’s sensibility and material retention. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/17482-0 - The Disney style of singing stories: a semiotic approach |
| Grantee: | Mário Sérgio Teodoro da Silva Júnior |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |