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| Author(s): |
Mariane Harumi Murakami
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2009-10-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Rosana de Lima Soares;
Silvia Helena Simões Borelli;
Mayra Rodrigues Gomes
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| Advisor: | Rosana de Lima Soares |
| Abstract | |
This research has as its proposal to discuss and reflect on the dichotomy fiction/reality present in contemporary Brazilian soap operas, performing an interdisciplinary approach of the issues concerning the mechanisms of discursive and thematic organization of the soap opera Vidas Opostas, broadcasted by Rede Record, focusing the subject of social violence. More precisely, we aim to explore the possibilities offered by Discourse Analysis to the operation of visual and verb-visual objects and to the implementation of an analysis methodology to the soap opera, verifying how its discourse on violence is constructed. It required, therefore, a theoretical deepen and, at the same time, an expansion in terms of theoretical-methodological construction, further considering the object specificity, which is constituted not only by nonverbal language, but also by moving images. In our analysis, we realized the existence of a strong demarcation in the representation of the spaces configured as the favela and the asfalto; this demarcation was not limited only to the characterization of these places, but it has spread out to the various plans of the discourse. Regarding the thematic of violence, we observed that, despite the representation of violence as a constitutive element of these two places, the discursive territory construction also remains. Thus, we identified in Vidas Opostas not only a geographical demarcation of the spaces called favela and asfalto, but also (and primarily) a discursive demarcation, which on the one hand exalts the favela and in the other hand, criticizes the asfalto. With this proposal, the soap opera intends to differ itself from the pattern tradicionally imposed by Rede Globo television, through distinctive thematic and aesthetic construction. It proposes itself as a television product which gives visibility to marginalized categories of society, thus accomplishing a social function beyond entertainment and alienation. However, this effort to overcome its rival broadcaster makes the soap opera constantly oscillate between innovation and tradition. On the one hand, it aims at distinct itself from other soap operas through experimentation in language, especially in the reality representation; on the other hand, it presents various elements which is typical of Brazilian soap operas, as we could see in our analysis. (AU) | |