Fame/obscurity paradigm in narrative journalism

Authors

  • Marcio Serelle Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)
  • Carlos Henrique Pinheiro PUC Minas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2016v13n1p68

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2016v13n1p68

This paper assumes that the opposite poles of fame and obscurity, as emerged in Gay Talese´s work, have become a paradigm for certain narrative journalism, with some influence in Brazilian contemporary reportage. Initially, we investigate the context in which this social approach was consolidated, in New Journalism, and its critical potential. Then, we analyze this paradigm in Brazilian reportages, written by the journalists Fred Melo Paiva and Christian Carvalho Cruz.  We aim at identifying and comprehending the principal aspects of our society revealed by the texts, considering this polarization. Some results show that the reportages claim for the visibility of anonymous and excluded individual in our society and criticize the ways mainstream media tell the stories of lives whether ordinary or famous. 

Author Biographies

Marcio Serelle, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)

Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação Social, "Interações Midiáticas, da PUC Minas, com pós-doutorado na University of Queensland (2015).

Carlos Henrique Pinheiro, PUC Minas

Mestre em Comunicação Social pela PUC Minas

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Published

2016-11-25

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2016): Profissão, Processos e Percursos

Section

Núcleo Temático

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