Modos de narração, tempo e espaço em obras seriadas televisivas : um estudo da poética de Capitu

Abstract

This thesis has as its central proposal to analyze how the dimensions of time and space act in the poetics of the miniseries Capitu (Rede Globo, 2008) and are related both to the central conflict experienced by the protagonist characters and to the modes of narration incorporated in the work. Methodologically, we focus on the narration system that combines the dramaturgical process (narrative) and the technical process (style) engendered in a television serial fiction production. Anchored by other researchers in the area, we start from the materiality of the work and use three different fields of knowledge to understand and discuss the phenomenon: Television Studies, Film Studies and Narratology. Our effort is based on the basic objective of contributing to the advancement of the field of television and serial fiction studies, which is increasingly developing on the Latin American continent, with theoretical-methodological approaches that focus on the internal analysis of works, poetics and their effects. For the purposes of our work, we focus particularly on the cognitive effects built into such production. The specific objectives include: i) identifying which characteristics of different modes of narration are adopted in the miniseries; ii) analyze the poetic construction of time and space configured in the work; iii) identify and analyze how other narrative elements, such as character and narrator, contribute to the construction of time, space and central conflict; iv) analyze how such poetics relates to the central dramatic conflicts and different narrative modes; v) identify and understand the effects programmed by Capitu's poetics and what meanings they potentially reveal in relation to the plot and the work. Structurally, the work is divided into three chapters: the first dedicated to theoretical-conceptual discussions centered on poetics, narrative and audiovisual style; the second focused on the methods and methodologies applied in the research, with the criteria adopted and the categories chosen for the analyses; and the last with the analyzes and discussions arising from the process, centrally using three narrative events from Capitu as parameters. With the results achieved, we conclude that the miniseries primarily adopts the classic mode of narration, with its guiding principle of causality, at the same time that it incorporates resources and characteristics of the art form, maintaining melodrama as a pregnant genre that mixes with other narrative and artistic genres, and thus constructs in poetics a time and space that contribute to configuring the work as timeless and universal. Ultimately, we believe that Capitu's poetics, by operating the mix between modes of narration and highlighting the game between objectivity and subjectivity in the areas of plot and style, makes it one of the most exponents and pioneering experiences of narrative complexity in Brazilian serial fiction made for broadcasting television.