Abstract
Abstract: This paper aims to compare two audiovisual tv products: a Brazilian soap operates “Avenida Brasil” (Brazil Avenue, 2012) and an American TV series Grey´s Anatomy (2005). The theoretical and methodological approach are structural narratology studies and French Semiotics, based on narratology studies influenced by Propp, Greimas and Barthes. The main goal is to analyze and compare the narrative structure of the first episodes of both TV productions by means the cardinal and catalyzer functions according to Roland Barthes narratives point of view.Keywords: brazilian soap opera, tv series, structural narratology, semiotics
Highlights
It is intended to compare two audiovisual productions within the scope of its first two chapters: a Brazilian soap opera broadcast by Rede Globo de Televisão (Rede Globo TV), Avenida Brasil (Brazil Avenue), and the North American television series Greys Anatomy, transmitted by ABC Domestic Television
According to Barthes, the concepts of cardinal function and catalysis function are used to explaining narrative structures that differ in the case of the Brazilian soap opera compared to a North American TV series
By thinking part of the structure of these two audiovisual narratives, it is possible to establish which type of function is most recurrent in each one by analyzing and comparing narrative frames obtained from that tv products as they will be shown below (“Presentation of narrative spaces”, “The characters and functions of Barthes”)
Summary
It is intended to compare two audiovisual productions within the scope of its first two chapters: a Brazilian soap opera broadcast by Rede Globo de Televisão (Rede Globo TV), Avenida Brasil (Brazil Avenue), and the North American television series Greys Anatomy, transmitted by ABC Domestic Television. The applied theoretical-methodological study involves structural narratology and French semiotics, which are based on narratological studies influenced by Propp, Greimas and Barthes. According to Barthes, the concepts of cardinal function and catalysis function are used to explaining narrative structures that differ in the case of the Brazilian soap opera compared to a North American TV series
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