The screenplay stylistics of contemporary television series: Analysis of the episode Chicanery, from Better Call Saul

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Marcel Vieira Barreto
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Aragão Quirino, Rodrigo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Lumina
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/lumina/article/view/29005
• topic: Better Call Saul; Chicanery; Series Screenplay; Roteiro seriado; Better Call Saul; Chicanery

This paper intends to analyze the script of the episode Chicanery, from the third season of the TV series Better Call Saul, a coproduction between AMC and Netflix. In theoretical terms, we seek to identify the aspects that boosted the screenwriting of contemporary television series, looking towards the sophistication of style and narrative, which led to the development of a writing design more interested in the atmosphere and the subjectivity, rather than the traditional objectivity on the description of the scene. To comprehend this stylistics, we observe, methodologically, how some elements, unusual to the orthodoxy of the screenplay, help in the textual structure of Chicanery. In the end, we show the functions of atmospheric and subjective elements in the contemporary audiovisual serialization.