Lei Maria da Penha como conceito operador para análise das representações de violência doméstica em telenovelas

Abstract

This paper analyzes the representations of domestic violence present in the soap opera O Outro Lado do Paraíso (Rede Globo, 2017), in order to investigate how the Maria da Penha Law can be used as a operator concept and transformed into analytic categories, which guide the apprehension of the meanings of this violence that circulates in the media. In this way, the main points of the Law are exposed and the types of aggressions it comprehends, the empirical object and its insertion and relevance in the communication field. Then it presents the discussion about the application of the Law as an operator concept. A brief analysis of the proposed object is made using the interactive situation analysis method (frame analysis). Thus, it is possible to realize that the content of the Law presents some instruments for apprehending situations of domestic violence in the soap opera and provides a basis for analyzing the representations of all types of aggressions contemplated by the Law, although some are less known to the public.