SERVING TWO GIANTS: MELODRAMA AND RELIGION IN THE CONFIGURATION OF BRAZILIAN TELENOVELAS

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497742844

Keywords:

Televisuality, Television Style, Religiosity

Abstract

This article presents a debate about the intertwining of the melodramatic and religious imagery for the construction of so-called spiritist telenovelas. Based on the experience of Latin modernity, with its own secularizing nuances, the text is methodologically based on televisuality and the application of television style as a procedural parameter. Based on the telenovelas A Viagem, Alma Gêmea and Além do Tempo, the article identifies that the stylistic marks used in the plots resignify the meanings of death to meet these two great matrices that shape the Latin worldview: melodrama and religion.

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Marcos Meigre, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutorando e mestre em Comunicação Social pela UFMG. Jornalista formado pela UFV.

Simone Maria Rocha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Professora associada do Departamento de Comunicação Social da UFMG. Doutora em Comunicação e Cultura pela UFRJ. Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa Comunicação e Cultura em Televisualidades - COMCULT/UFMG

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Published

2021-11-18

How to Cite

Meigre, M., & Rocha, S. M. (2021). SERVING TWO GIANTS: MELODRAMA AND RELIGION IN THE CONFIGURATION OF BRAZILIAN TELENOVELAS. Animus.Inter-American Journal of Media Communication, 20(44). https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497742844

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Vol. 20 No. 44 (2021)

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