Ruptures of meaning in contemporary Brazilian fiction stories in television

Authors

  • Adriana Pierre Coca Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2015.172.11

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to reflect upon the ruptures of meaning in Brazilian contemporary series. The theoretical-methodological framework is based on semiotics of culture. The reflection will be based on Lotman’s explosion concept (1999) in order to reflect upon how the aesthetic and narrative aspects observed in telefiction may provoke tension that leads to new meanings and makes us realize certain cultural systems which compose the semiosphere thought by Lotman (1999). We believe that, recurrently, productions have been shown, especially by the main open channel, TV Globo, which offer something unpredictable to the viewer in relation to visual aesthetics and also to narrative pathways and, thus, propose new ways of telling fiction stories on television.

Keywords: fiction stories in television, ruptures of meaning, semiotics of culture.

Author Biography

Adriana Pierre Coca, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Bolsista CAPES/DS. Doutoranda da UFRGS em Comuncação e Informação, na linha de Linguagem e Culturas da Imagem. Mestre em Comunicação e Linguagens, na linha de Processos Mediáticos e Práticas Comunicacionais, pela Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. Possui graduação em Rádio e TV pela UNESP (1995). É especialista em Técnicas e Teorias da Comunicação pela Fundação Cásper Líbero (1997) e em Gestão de Projetos, segundo às Práticas do PMI pela FIAP (2008). Tem experiência em direção e produção de TV, trabalhou na TV Cultura de São Paulo e no SBT. Membro dos Grupos de Pesquisa Gpesc (UFRGS)  e Processocom (UNISINOS).

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Published

2015-07-15

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2015): May/August

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