Technological development, television style and telenovelas: possible genre reconfigurations in the production of Gabriela

Abstract

The relations among technological development, stylistic innovations and possible reconfigurations in telenovela's genre will be analysed through excerpts of the first episode from the telenovela Gabriela, which portray the travelling from the hinterland to Ilhéus, in an elaborate work of visual composition at the expense of dialogue as the plot conductor. The goal is showing that amendments in those relations can suggest changes in the communicability strategies that characterize the referred genre.