Maysa, Dalva e Herivelto: personalidades retratadas em telebiografias

Abstract

This work proposes the analysis of recent biographies in Brazilian miniseries by using Textual Analysis (CASSETTI; DI CHIO, 1999) together with the ―Moldurações‖ (KILPP, 2003). The first method aims to decompose audiovisuals elements and regroup them with a critical vision, emphasizing their architecture, functioning, theoretical structure and strategies. Kilpp‘s technique of frames is here a supporting to identify those elements. The propose was to conceptualize the way of biographic representation adopted by Brazilian television fiction, from the national teledramaturgy and docudrama concepts. From these definitions, the contours of telebiographies were plotted. Dalva e Herivelto (Globo, 2010) and Maysa (Globo, 2009) were the chosen miniseries to the empirical analysis, because, among the most recent examples, both miniseries were produced only to TV, involving near (but not similar) historical periods and narrating about MPB idols life. The research noted that there is a current trend of biographical representations (five of this kind of miniseries were produced in the last five years) shaped like a ―microseries‖ (Brazilian way of designating series with few episodes), which prioritize a fictional narrative based on real facts. These narratives are called telebiographies here and they are molded by the contours of teledramaturgy, one of the most important genres of Brazilian cultural matrices on TV.