Banca de DEFESA: JOÃO PEDRO RAMALHO MARTINS

THE TRADITIONAL AND THE MODERN: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTHEAST WILDERNESS WHERE THE FORT ARE BORN

TV; northeastern wilderness; serial fiction; aesthetics of repetition

The northeastern wilderness, its subjects and cultures have consolidated themselves as a recurring space in Brazilian audiovisual, often associated with elements such as drought, violence and the permanence of tradition (ALBUQUERQUE JÚNIOR, 2011). And national television, whose main fictional product is the telenovela, also followed this path, especially because of its concern with creating a narrative of the nation (LOPES, 2003). This research, therefore, starts from the understanding of the images of the sertão constructed in the audiovisual to investigate how television production practices approach this space under the logic of the aesthetics of repetition (CALABRESE, 1987), a tendency that attributes to part of Western cultural creations a constant dialogism. , marked by the production of novelty in a scenario of repetitions. The empirical object chosen is the serial fiction work Onde Nascem os Fortes (TV Globo, 2018), which set its story in a space presented as a sertanejo. The objective will be to identify how the northeastern wilderness  elaborated in the production reflects possible articulations between the traditional images of this space and constructions associated with the novelty, with a focus on place indicators, characters and themes. The investigative path adopted will seek to integrate the propositions of Jost (2007), on television research as a joint broadcast, with the Analysis of Audiovisual Materiality (COUTINHO, 2016), a methodology that proposes a look at the works as the union between , sound, text, timing and editing. The research hypothesis is that Onde Nascem os Fortes builds a contemporary sertão, in the sense of the polyphony proposed by Moreira (2018), but still maintains traditional elements associated with the wilderness, such as drought and an endogenous vision of justice.