Banca de DEFESA: JOAO EDUARDO SILVA DE ARAUJO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : JOAO EDUARDO SILVA DE ARAUJO
DATA : 27/06/2019
HORA: 09:00
LOCAL: FACULDADE DE COMUNICAÇÃO
TÍTULO:

“All in the game”: the poiesis of a realistic fictional world in The Wire"

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

fictional worlds; realism; television fiction; television studies; The Wire.

PÁGINAS: 383
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
ÁREA: Comunicação
RESUMO:

This dissertation examines the manner in which The Wire’s narrative and stylistic structures at once produce a fictional world that is particular to the TV show and cast over that world an illusion of reality. The goal of our research is, thus, double-edged. On one hand, we’re interested in analyzing how The Wire produces a distinct fictional world, organized by its own set of rules and notable for the events, settings, characters, and atmospheric qualities that emerge along the show’s five seasons. On the other hand, we’re also interested in analyzing the ways The Wire casts an intense impression of lifelikeness over said world, making it feel similar to the portion of our own reality the series more directly allegorizes. In this journey, we take on the approach of Poetics, characterized by the meticulous observation of the ways the narrative and stylistic devices of a medium take form in a particular work. In our case, the approach of Poetics helps us understand the ways The Wire engages its mise-en-scène and the narrative, dramatic, visual, and auditory devices it employs both to create a unique fictional world and to evoke reality effects. At the end of the analyses, we hope to demonstrate how The Wire builds an ontic sphere distinguished by the tension between the oppressive institutions of a decaying city on one hand and the individuals captured in their web on the other. On that same note, this research also investigates the ways the show invites us to read reality itself through those same lenses of institutional oppression, thus evoking realism. Beyond that, we also explore how the patterns that govern the show’s plots and serialized structures produce a very unique temporal dynamic. In The Wire, events are themselves highly significant are cyclically organized, and yet the series is able to produce a strong impression that it only linearly ensues events that are random and, very often, ordinary, the same way “real time” allegedly does. In this whole effort, the dissertation anchors its findings on a set of creative parameters adopted by the series creators, and on how those parameters at once help create the show’s unique word and evoke its reality effects. Beyond that, we also anchor our findings on the ways The Wire recreates real stories and individuals, and on the show’s moorings on melodrama, the police procedural, and the cinematic style of the Italian neorealist movement.

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Externo à Instituição - JOSE BENJAMIM PICADO SOUSA E SILVA - UFF
Externo à Instituição - MARCEL VIEIRA BARRETO SILVA - UFPB
Presidente - 366097 - MARIA CARMEN JACOB DE SOUZA
Externo à Instituição - MARIA CRISTINA PALMA MUNGIOLI - USP