Melodrama, excess, and media narratives: a systematization based on the intellectual kinship approach
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v16i1p181-207Keywords:
Comparative study, Intellectual kinship, Media, Melodrama, ExcessAbstract
This article presents four possible ontologies through the nature, composition, purpose, and location of the relations between excess and melodrama in media narratives. The concept of intellectual kinship is methodologically used over three categories: identification of the common antagonist, evidence of similarity in intercommunication, and enhancement of dissimilarity as the maintenance of autonomy. The conclusions point to the non-consensual nature of melodrama; the binomial understanding of the relational composition between excess/melodrama; disputes concerning the purposes of the action of excess in melodrama; and the recognition that the materialities on which excess and melodrama focus are multiple.
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