Palimpsesto Mediático:o lastro ibérico medieval n'O Auto da Compadecida

Abstract

The text aims to reflect on how the stories of popular culture took shape in televisual discourse, built in a piecemeal way from various references, like a palimpsest. The main focus is the tradition of thought in the Portuguese language, the Iberian medieval heritage brought to Brazil by the settlers and which for social and economic reasons remains more visible in the Brazilian Northeast. For empirical crop we use O auto da Compadecida, TV product displayed in four chapters, by Rede Globo, at 1999. The story is based on the play of the same name, written by Ariano Suassuna, in 1955, inspired by the cordel literature. The goal is to point out the conjunctions and disjunctions of work in television over the seminal text, and even a glimpse of the cultural heritage included in the microssérie, using the concepts of transluciferação and imaginary ages. To complete this study of social mediations we employed two other adaptations to film : A Compadecida, 1969, and Os Trapalhões no auto da Compadecida, 1987. As it is impossible to treat of culture without mentioning the technical mediation by which it is built, through which it spreads and where it is played, the languages of media theater, film and television, and their characteristics are also relevant to our research. So we use Mediologia as a base method that divides mediations in three stages, or mediaspheres: the logosphere the graphosfere and videosphere, which in our view must correspond, respectively, theater, film and television.