Representations of death in the media narratives: The poetics of the soap opera Velho Chico

Authors

  • Míriam Cristina Carlos Silva Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO)
  • Bruna Emy Camargo Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/ver.2018.32.80.04

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand the representations of death present in the poetic narrative of the soap opera “Velho Chico” (Gshow, 2016), produced by Rede Globo. We start from the concepts of communication as an event, bonding and artifice, the last one based on the consciousness of mortality, phenomenon which distresses the human being and produces culture. Here, the soap opera is understood as a form of representation, interpretation, criticism and reconstruction phenomena of the world. The poetic aspects present in the representations of death in the soap opera Velho Chico, sensitively approach the mortality as a nature and culture phenomenon, aside from being the link between the narrative items and, more than this, the profound human link.

Keywords: poetic representations of death, anthropophagy, Velho Chico.

Author Biographies

Míriam Cristina Carlos Silva, Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO)

Mestrado e doutorado em Comunicação e Semiótica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Pós-doutorado em Comunicação Social pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Professora titular do Mestrado em Comunicação e Cultura da Universidade de Sorocaba, na linha de pesquisa Análise de Processos e Produtos Midiáticos.

Bruna Emy Camargo, Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO).

Estudante do 7º semestre no curso de Comunicação Social com habilitação em Jornalismo da Universidade de Sorocaba, vinculada ao projeto de Iniciação Científica Probic 2017/2018 sob orientação da professora Míriam Cristina Carlos da Silva.

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Published

2018-08-27

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 80 (2018)

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