Heroínas da lei: análise e evolução da apresentação mitológica das primeiras policiais protagonistas de seriados de TV norte-americanos

Abstract

This work brings a partial analysis of Television history, with emphasis on the bond between fiction and reality. It intends to go deeper and understand how the TV was created and developed in relation to the society on which stands, in particular, the North-American, and the public. It goes, therefore, through the emergence of this mass medium in the 1940‟s until mid-1980. In parallel, it analyzes how the female figure was built inside the stories and showed on the small screen in accordance with each social situation, but also opens to several changes. The profile relapses into the dramatic series about police. To do this, it makes a review of pilots, name given to the first episode of a TV show, from two pioneers. In Police Woman, broadcast from 1974 to 1978, it forges the first female police as a protagonist, Sergeant Suzanne Anderson, nicknamed by Pepper. Then, it was set up the first duo of policewomen, Cagney and Lacey, aired from 1981 to 1988. By these two titles, it will be possible to realize and see elements from power of myth and the heroes‟ journey during the first exposure moments of these three characters.