A TV como reparação

Abstract

The culture of repair, in Brazilian television scope, it’s defined by the notion, shared socially, that programming should compensate the lack of cultural capital of part of the population through educational actions with a moral background, inserted even in fictional product, resulting in a fractured entertainment, with a peculiar realism. This article discusses the forms of realism, especially in soap operas, which seek, among verisimilitude and truth, between mimesis and general portraiture, his way of building a “mirror built into the world”, as in the familiar metaphor of Stendhal. The aim is to analyse social merchandising in some fiction television, identifying in them a given responsibility that seems to refute the power of entertainment.