O saber do espectador e o saber do telespectador

Abstract

This article discusses basic questions of narratology, from a criticism to different opinions defended by Gerard Genette, demonstrating that such conceptions does not fit to the visual texts of the cinema and television. It begins by establishing a distinction between seeing and knowing embedded in the narratologic relations, which are indifferently utilized by this discipline theorists. It convokes, in order to illustrate its purpose, a heuristic example: the September 11th attempt, perpetrated against the World Trade Center. This way, it shows that seeing is related to knowing - the images of the attempt, by themselves, are not recognized while the viewer can not establish a link between them and a dimension of the world which, on TV, appears linked to the real, to the fictional or to the ludic. From the analysis of the mentioned event, it reveals that the images just can be accepted as violent when passes through the human somatization.