Televisão, Ideologia E Violência: A Reprodução Das Relações De Dominação Nas Ficções Seriadas

Abstract

Television, Ideology and Violence: The Reproduction of the Relations of Domination in Fiction Series is a dissertation that perceives the strength and space occupied by the media in the social life of all individuals. Large media companies produce commodities in the form of entertainment and/or information. As these audiovisual products are widespread, primarily for profit, we believe that is reasonable to pose questions as: do the symbolic forms convey ideological content? In what ways do they sustain relations of domination? Is there an interest behind these big companies in acting in favor of maintaining the status quo? In order to answer them, the exercise of criticism becomes fundamental, because through them we obtain accurate information about the symbolic forms conveyed by the media, revealing the interests defended by the ruling elite. According to John Thompson, ideology can be conveyed by the meaning in symbolic forms, which can be attributed to establishing and sustaining asymmetrical relations of power. Moreover, according to Noam Chomsky, the manufacturing of consent is the attainment of agreement from the people through political propaganda on matters which they have disagreed with. Thus, in order to demonstrate this process of solidification of the socio-cultural imaginary, we have selected four brazilian fiction series of the XXI century, under the thematic axis of the city of Rio de Janeiro, whose symbolic forms reproduce asymmetrical relations of power, use subjective violence to manufacture consent and thus justify and legitimize the established social order, relegating objective violence to a level of pure naturalness, by cloaking its true capitalistic roots.