[Commlist] New book: How TV Fiction Built a Nation: A Cultural History of the Brazilian Telenovela

Free download: 
https://www.livrosabertos.abcd.usp.br/portaldelivrosUSP/catalog/view/1310/1197/4597 
<https://www.livrosabertos.abcd.usp.br/portaldelivrosUSP/catalog/view/1310/1197/4597>.

The book /How TV Fiction Built a Nation: A Cultural History of the 
Brazilian Telenovela (1963 to 2020)/, written by Lucas Martins Néia and 
published by Estação das Letras e Cores, follows the diachrony of 
telenovelas in Brazil, aiming to explore instances where television, 
culture, and society intertwined since the airing of the country’s first 
daily TV fiction.

The primary data for this research comprised 677 telenovelas broadcast 
between 1963 and 2020, analysed in terms of /spatiality/. Four 
predominant spatial constructs were therein identified: the city of São 
Paulo; the city of Rio de Janeiro; Brazil’s countryside; and overseas. 
This information was then compared to previously proposed periodisations 
for the historical process of the Brazilian telenovela. Our journey was 
thusly parsed out: (I) /fantasy/ or /sentimental/ (1963 to 1968); (II) 
/national-popular/ or /realist/ (1968 to 1990); (III) 
/interventionist/ or /naturalist/ (1990 to 2015); and (IV) 
/neofantasy/ or /neosentimental/ (2015 onwards).

Through this /walk/, readers will encounter 40 QR codes leading to 
excerpts from TV fictions, programmes, or movies themed across the 
pages. They will also witness how melodrama — which is the cultural 
matrix of these narratives — has orchestrated aesthetic and emotional 
experiences capable of reshaping meanings in the arena of 
representations of national identity over the past 60 years in Brazil. 
This highlights the role of TV fiction as an important agent in the 
reorganisation of senses of Brazilianness and belonging.

The work was the winner of the Thesis Printing and Publishing Contest 
held for the 50th Anniversary of the Postgraduate Program in 
Communications at the School of Communications and Arts at the 
University of São Paulo (PPGCOM ECA-USP, Brazil). This recognition 
enabled its editing and publication in Portuguese through the 
Postgraduate Support (PROAP) provided by the Brazilian Coordination for 
the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). Consequently, 
both physical and digital versions of the book are available for free.

*About the author:*
Lucas Martins Néia is a screenwriter, playwright, theatre director, and 
art educator. Currently, he works as a Professor at the Senac University 
Center (CAS, Brazil) and the Paula Souza State Center for Technological 
Education (CEETEPS, Brazil), as well as a Workshop Instructor and 
Speaker with the /Pontos MIS/ Program, from the São Paulo Museum of 
Image and Sound (MIS-SP, Brazil). He holds a PhD in Communications from 
the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil) and a BA in Performing Arts 
from the State University of Londrina (UEL, Brazil). His research 
interests include melodramatic manifestations and cultural identities, 
media representations, the theory and practice of screenwriting, and the 
history of drama in theatre, film, radio, television, and streaming. 
Email: (lucas_martins_neia /at/ hotmail.com)
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