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

Mon May 20 13:40:53 GMT 2024






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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