Realidade e ficção no Big Brother e no CQC: a promessa de transparência hiper-realista versus o encobrimento irônico e sedutor do real

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Polydoro, Felipe
• Orientador(a): Silva, Juremir Machado da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: COMUNICAÇÃO SOCIAL; COMUNICAÇÃO E IMAGINÁRIO; PROGRAMAS DE TELEVISÃO - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; CULTURA E MÍDIA; COMUNICAÇÃO - ASPECTOS FILOSÓFICOS; REALIDADE
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2105

Reality has become the central theme of several contemporary media products. In different forms of media (movies, television, literature, and the printed press), there is an increase of topics which explore the frontier between reality and fiction and that fulfill a need for signs of real life. In the present study, we analyzed two television programs which illustrate this phenomenon: the comedy show “Custe o Que Custar (CQC)” and the reality show “Big Brother Brasil”. The basis used for this analysis is Jean Baudrillard‟s theory which identifies the disappearance of our current notion of reality. Baudrillard believes that our concept of reality has been replaced by a sense of hyper-reality during a time characterized by simulated versions of reality. According to Baudrillard and Nietzsche, the concept of reality is not accurately defined but it varies throughout history. Similar to their point of view, this work examines reality in a historical perspective starting with Plato, and moving to the modern theories of Descartes, Berkeley, and Kant, changing again with Nietzsche and finally ending with Baudrillard. In this study, Baudrillard‟s theory was utilized to identify how these two specific television shows deal with reality and how they may represent the contemporary notion of reality. The analysis of the television shows revealed the presence of evident imaginary simulations which contrasts with the effort to conceal and satirize reality by using an ironic and seductive game of signs.