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| Author(s): |
Rodolpho Hockmuller Menezes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2023-04-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Mary Anne Junqueira;
Eduardo Victorio Morettin;
Alexandre Busko Valim;
Mariana Martins Villaça
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| Advisor: | Mary Anne Junqueira |
| Abstract | |
The master\'s thesis analyzes the TV series Manhunt: Unabomber, originally aired in 2017 by Discovery Channel in the United States, and available in the streaming service Netflix. The series portrays the investigation of Theodore Kaczynski, an American domestic terrorist, from the point of view of James Fitzgerald, an FBI agent. Known as the Unabomber, as his targets were initially airlines and universities, Kaczynski sent homemade bombs by mail, taking more than 17 years to be identified and arrested. The terrorist was identified by the linguistic analysis of his manifesto, The Industrial Society and its future, which criticizes the technological and modern society. Manhunt dramatizes the final stages of the investigation while also portraying the reasons and events that led Kaczynski to carry out such acts of violence. Our objective was to discuss the tradition of dissent in the United States and the representations of wilderness in the narrative, as the antithesis to modern life. We address the representations of anti-intellectualism and institutions as an answer to American elitism. We proposed to understand Manhunt as a cultural product of its time, the result of negotiations by the series\' production team. Thus, we discuss the changes in the industry that led Discovery to invest in \"Quality TV\", producing a scripted series in 2017. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/21042-0 - Anti-modernity: domestic terrorism in the United States and the TV series "Manhunt: Unabomber" |
| Grantee: | Rodolpho Hockmuller Menezes |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |