POPULISM AND MELODRAMA: intimacy in video on Jair Bolsonaro’s social networks

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2023v9n1a10pt

Keywords:

video, social networking sites, melodrama, populism, pacts of intimacy

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the role of a melodramatic rhetoric to mobilize the effects of a shared intimacy, consolidating feelings of closeness that support affective and empathic projections and, with them, helps consolidate a support base supported by such passionate engagements. In this sense, we will focus on the audiovisuals of Jair Bolsonaro's social networks to demonstrate how a rhetoric of the persecuted is constructed, strengthening, through melodramatic management of political discourse, a passional regime that is central to sustain populism.

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Author Biographies

Adil Giovanni Lepri, UFF

É doutor pelo Programa de Pós Graduação em Cinema e Audiovisual da Universidade Federal Fluminense e pesquisador do Nex - Núcleo de Estudos do Excesso nas Narrativas Audiovisuais.

Mariana Baltar, UFF

É professora do PPGCine (Programa de Pós-graduação em Cinema e Audiovisual) da UFF e coordenadora do Nex: Núcleo de Estudos do Excesso nas Narrativas Audiovisuais.

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Published

2023-12-31

How to Cite

LEPRI, Adil Giovanni; BALTAR, Mariana. POPULISM AND MELODRAMA: intimacy in video on Jair Bolsonaro’s social networks. Observatory Journal, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 1, p. a10pt, 2023. DOI: 10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2023v9n1a10pt. Disponível em: https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/observatorio/article/view/14520. Acesso em: 19 dec. 2024.