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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


FEUILLETON Histórias simples de gente cá do bairro

FOREIGN SERIES Os Vingadores


MARCELLO CAETANO Conversas em Família


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

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)

Trace of affection

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 the nation; indigenization (Appadurai, 2004)

Television Fiction

2000-2010:


• Cultural validity of television fiction

– Thematiztion

– Ritualization

– Belonging

– Participation

• (Lopes, 2004)

Television Fiction

2000-2010:


Ethnic category (Appadurai, 2004)

Cultural Matrix (Martin-Barbero, 1998)

Cultural Form (Williams, 1975)

Television Fiction

2000-2010:


• 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

A raia dos medos

A febre do ouro negro

Conde D’Abranhos

Alves dos Reis

O Processo dos Távoras

Jóia de África

A Ferreirinha

João Semana

Pedro e Inês

Quando os lobos uivam

Bocage

Os mistérios da estrada de sintra

Regresso a Sizalinda

Paixões Proibidas

Conta-me como foi

O Dia do Regicídio

Equador

A vida privada de Salazar

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

2007, India 2010, Uruguay

2008, Africa

2002, Venezuela

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

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