Telenovelas and representations of national identity in Brazil

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11267916
AutoresMauro P Porto (Tulane University, autor de correspondencia), Mauro Porto (Tulane University)
Año2011
Volumen33
Número1
Páginas53-69
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0163443710385500
OpenAlexW2139411648
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas21

The article analyses the representations of national identity in the fictional programming of TV Globo, Brazil’s dominant media conglomerate. A textual analysis of telenovelas (soap operas) broadcast in the last four decades of Brazil’s political history shows that they build compelling visions of the nation through ‘microcosms’, the imagined locations in which the stories take place. Based on the concepts of hegemony and mediation, the article identifies a dialectic in which broader processes of political, economic and social change have been reflected in television fiction’s localized representations of the nation even as telenovelas shape these same processes and endow them with new meanings. The article then traces the evolution of these complex mediations through four main phases of Brazil’s recent political history, highlighting the linkages between television fiction and the dilemmas of the new democracy

Democracy · Dialectic · Epistemology · Hegemony · Media studies · Mediation · National identity · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Law · Social Media and Politics