Interactive television fiction and Brecht’s V-Effekt

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Keywords:

interactive television fiction, V-Effekt, Brecht, Black Mirror, artificial intelligence.

Abstract

This paper aims to draw a parallel between interactive television fiction and V-Effect, also known as the distancing effect, proposed by playwright Bertolt Brecht. The corpus of the research consists in two interactive episodes from two fiction shows from profoundly different times and geographies: the “Meu Pai” episode from television series “Você Decide” (Globo, 1997) and, mainly, the “Bandersnatch” episode from on-demand series “Black Mirror” (Netflix, 2018). Our goal is to do a preliminary analysis of the technological competence in generating the distancing effect when allied to television fiction. 

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Author Biography

Ligia Prezia Lemos, USP

Doutora e Mestra em Ciências da Comunicação pela ECA-USP. Coordenadora do GP Ficção Seriada da Intercom. Vice-coordenadora do Centro de Estudos de Telenovela (CETVN/ECA-USP) e da equipe brasileira do Observatório Ibero-Americano da Ficção Televisiva (Obitel). Pós-Doutoranda na ECA-USP, bolsista CAPES. E-mail: ligia.lemos@gmail.com

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Published

2021-04-19

Issue

No. 46 (2021)

Section

Artigos | Articles

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