Television Fiction - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Portuguese television fiction and historical narratives
2000-2010: a decade under review
Catarina Duff Burnay
24th November 2011
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
RTP: the first years of television fiction
TELETEATRO (television plays)
Monólogo do Vaqueiro, 1957
FILM
Fado, a história de uma cantadeira, 1957
RTP: the first years of television fiction
FEUILLETON
Histórias simples de gente cá do bairro
FOREIGN SERIES
Os Vingadores
RTP: the first years of television fiction
MARCELLO CAETANO
Conversas em Família
RTP: the first years of television fiction
TELENOVELA (Brazilian)
Gabriela, 1977
TELENOVELA (Portuguese)
Vila Faia, 1982
From monopoly to market
SIC , 1992
Sociedade Independente de Comunicação
TVI, 1993
Televisão Independente
From monopoly to market
1995: SIC and TV Globo
Ranking
SIC / RTP1 / TVI
Television Fiction
Until 2000:
RTP1
telenovelas / pre-prime time
series / inspired by national moments
Television Fiction
Until 2000:
SIC
Brazilian telenovelas / prime time
series / imported formats
SIC Filmes (telemovies)
Television Fiction
Until 2000:
TVI
Venezuelan telenovelas / day time
Portuguese telenovela: Telhados de Vidro
American series / prime time
Television Fiction
From 2000:
TVI
Information
Entertainment
Fiction
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Better demand/supply relationship
Production standards:
Diversification of formats
Diversification of themes
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Production standards
Diversification of formats and themes
Telenovelas
for
prime time
Face:
boom of US series
Migration for other
platforms
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Diversification of formats
series (13, 26, 52 episodes)
miniseries (2-6 episodes)
Diversification of themes
International trends (police, thriller, vampires)
National historical moments
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
National historical moments
Collective memory
Idealized and traumatic memories
Exercise of cultural proximity
(Laffond, 2011)
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Liquid modernity (Bauman, 2001)
Places, non-places (Augé, 1994)
New places (Monteiro, 2003)
Strengthen bonds of IDENTITY
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Strengthen bonds of IDENTITY
Work of memory (Martins, 2007)
Active element of identity (Almeida, 2001)
Collective Activity
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Work of Memory - Collective Activity
(...) no memory, no matter how personal it is (...) is related to a
whole set of notions that manny of us have with people, places,
dates and forms of language, that is, with all moral and material
life of societies to which we belong or that we were part of.
(Halbwachs, 1944 [1925])
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Identity, Nation, Nationalism
1) Popular sovereignty
2) Spread of rights
3) Developed of media
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
“National cases”
Common principles
Trace of affection
The nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. (...) The nation, like the
individual, is the culmination of a long past of endeavors,
sacrifice, and devotion. (...) To have common glories in the past
and to have a common will in the present; to have performed
great deeds, together, to wish to perform still more – these are
the essential conditions for Being a people.
(Renan, 1987)
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Exercise of Memory
Media as mnemonic devices (Sobral, 2006)
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Televisivon and Fiction content
• Presentation, production and reproduction of
identity (Lopes, 2004, 2009)
• Popular narrative about
indigenization (Appadurai, 2004)
the
nation;
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Televisivon and Fiction content
• Cultural validity of television fiction
–
–
–
–
Thematiztion
Ritualization
Belonging
Participation
•
(Lopes, 2004)
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Televisivon and Fiction content
Ethnic category (Appadurai, 2004)
Cultural Matrix (Martin-Barbero, 1998)
Cultural Form (Williams, 1975)
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Televisivon and Fiction content
• Process of depresentification (Castellò, 2005, 2007, 2009)
• Structure of collective sentiments (Buonanno, 2007)
• Agent of the national cause (O’Donnell et al, 2009)
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Historical productions
RTP1
19
SIC
1
TVI
2
2000
A raia dos medos
A febre do ouro negro
Conde D’Abranhos
Alves dos Reis
2001
O Processo dos Távoras
2002
Jóia de África
2004
A Ferreirinha
2005
João Semana
Pedro e Inês
2006
Quando os lobos uivam
Bocage
Os mistérios da estrada de sintra
2007
Regresso a Sizalinda
Paixões Proibidas
Conta-me como foi
2008
O Dia do Regicídio
Equador
2009
A vida privada de Salazar
2010
O Segredo de Miguel Zuzarte
República
Noite Sangrenta
A noite do fim do mundo
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Historical productions
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Total
RTP1
4
1
-
-
1
2
3
3
1
-
4
19
SIC
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
1
TVI
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
2
Total
4
1
1
-
1
2
3
3
1
2
4
22
Television Fiction
2001, Africa
2008, Africa
2002, Venezuela
2007, India
2010, Uruguay
Television Fiction
2000-2010:
Temporal displacement (Booth, 2011)
Maintain the
public (nostalgic
memories)
Reach the
younger
Television Fiction
2011:
Hybrid solution
Telenovela (evocation of collective memory)
Historical content (happening)
Television Fiction
2011:
Television Fiction
FUTURE?
Portuguese television fiction and historical narratives
2000-2010: a decade under review
Catarina Duff Burnay
24th November 2011
Universidad Complutense de Madrid