Reimagining Brazilian Television
Luiz Fernando Carvalho's Contemporary Vision
Published on 26. April 2018
297 pages
978-0-8229-8296-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. At the forefront of this industry is TV Globo and its production of standardized telenovelas, which millions of Brazilians and viewers from over 130 countries watch nightly. Eli Lee Carter examines the field of television production by focusing on the work of one of Brazil's greatest living directors, Luiz Fernando Carvalho. Through an emphasis on Carvalho's thirty-plus year career working for TV Globo, his unique mode of production, and his development of a singular aesthetic as a reaction to the dominant telenovela genre, Carter sheds new light on Brazilian television's history, its current state, and where it is going-as new legislation and technology push it increasingly toward a post-network era.
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Eli Lee Carter is assistant professor of Portugese at the University of Virginia.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Asserting the Creative Role of the Television Director in a Writer's World
- Chapter Two. Creating through the Preproduction Process
- Chapter Three. Setting the Stage: From the Teleteatro to the Microseries
- Chapter Four. Establishing the Aesthetic Tone: The Opening Scene and Motifs
- Chapter Five. Rediscovering and Reappropriating Ancestral Roots
- Chapter Six. Taking the Show on the Road: Itinerant Television
- Chapter Seven. Changing with a Changing Landscape
- Conclusion. Reimagining the (Anti-)Telenovela
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
