Family mediation: appropriations, mediatic and sociocultural uses in the telenovela and the bumba meu boi

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Lourdes Ana Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Intexto (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/57129
• topic: Identidade. Estudos de recepção. Telenovela. Bumba meu boi. História oral.; Identity. Studies reception. Telenovela. Bumba meu-boi. Oral history.

This article aims to analyze the constitution of family identity through the lived relations with the melodramatic genre, explored in its various dimensions and manifestations, including the telenovela and the bumba meu boi; taking as its starting point the study of three generations of one family. The theoretical reference is based on cultural studies and reception studies. We opted for the qualitative research and worked with the method of oral history, as it unfolds in the technique of family history. Among other results, it is emphasized that the characterization of the cultural practices showed the family's trajectory with the fictional and melodramatic narratives, i.e. other ways to live with the soap opera and with other formats that also present the melodrama genre. Furthermore, the family history revealed that the soap opera (the newspaper serial, the radio soap opera and the fotonovela), as popular melodramatic tradition, precedes the telenovela, which is, the soap opera seen on television.