Submitted by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2018-03-01T14:36:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SAMI_NAPPO.pdf: 2961607 bytes, checksum: 88a5b74966c97e771df9c1b1c072ef38 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2018-03-01T14:36:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 SAMI_NAPPO.pdf: 2961607 bytes, checksum: 88a5b74966c97e771df9c1b1c072ef38 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Debora Cristina Bonfim Aquarone (deborabonfim@espm.br) on 2018-03-01T18:45:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 SAMI_NAPPO.pdf: 2961607 bytes, checksum: 88a5b74966c97e771df9c1b1c072ef38 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-05T10:51:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SAMI_NAPPO.pdf: 2961607 bytes, checksum: 88a5b74966c97e771df9c1b1c072ef38 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-28 / This research has as theme the Boffering, a youth practice of fighting using medieval-inspired weapons and the (re) creation of the Middle Ages. For this, it is not only understood as a game, but also as a communicative, sociocultural and consumer practice that makes use of performance and rituals. The theoretical object concerns the articulations between the consumption of media narratives, ritualistic and performative processes present in the construction of the memory of medievalism. The Draikaner youth group is an empirical object. The general objective is to examine the construction of memory of a possible medieval generated by the practice of boffering, in the light of the semiotics of the culture of Tártu Moscou. The secondary ones are: to deepen the knowledge of Draikaner and its practice; discuss the consumption of media narratives and materials present in the group; understand the relations between consumer practices (the media narratives and boffering itself) and the Middle Ages. The questioning of how the memory of an era that they have not lived is built on and which influences them to the point of developing a practice inspired by the Middle Ages, supposing that this practice also serves as a "place" of consumption, ritualization and construction of subjectivities, guided this research. The corpus includes field observations, analyzing the material and symbolic signs that are present in Draikaner practice, interviews with members, as well as bibliographic material. For this study the flanêrie, by Mclaren (2000), was chosen as methodology applied to the first approximations with the group, together with the analysis of the interviews carried out later in another space, field observations and bibliographic research. The work is based on the theoretical assumptions of authors such as: Iúri Lótman, Hilário Franco, Umberto Eco, Roger Siverstone, Rose Rocha, Maurice Halbwachs, Johan Huizinga, Roger Caillois, Martine Segalen, João Machado Pais, Michel Maffesoli and Mônica Nunes, among others . It is hoped to demonstrate that through the process of semiosis these young people create new meanings and with this they conceive a new semiosphere aimed at (re) creation of the Middle Ages, through a practice that can be understood as a game and a performance and by ritual processes that they experience. / Esta pesquisa tem como tema o Boffering, uma prática juvenil de combates usando armas de inspiração medieval e a (re)criação da Idade Média. Para tanto ele (o boffering) não é entendido somente como um jogo, mas também como uma prática comunicativa, sociocultural e de consumo que faz uso da performance e de rituais. O objeto teórico diz respeito às articulações entre consumo de narrativas midiáticas, processos ritualísticos e performáticos presentes na construção da memória do medievalismo. O grupo juvenil Draikaner constitui-se como objeto empírico. O objetivo geral é examinar a construção da memória de um medieval possível gerado pela prática do boffering, à luz da semiótica da cultura de Tártu Moscou. Os secundários são: aprofundar o conhecimento do Draikaner e sua prática; discutir o consumo das narrativas midiáticas e de materiais presentes no grupo; entender as relações entre as práticas de consumo (as narrativas midiáticas e o próprio boffering) e a Idade Média. O questionamento de como é construída a memória de uma época que eles não viveram e que os influencia a ponto de desenvolverem uma prática inspirada na Idade Média, supondo que essa prática também serve como '‘local’' de consumo, de ritualização e de construção de subjetividades, norteou essa pesquisa. O corpus inclui as observações de campo, analisando os signos materiais e simbólicos que estão presentes na prática do Draikaner, entrevistas com membros, além do material bibliográfico. Para esse estudo foi escolhida a flanêrie, de Mclaren (2000), como metodologia aplicada às primeiras aproximações com o grupo, somada à análise das entrevistas realizadas posteriormente em outro espaço, às observações de campo e à pesquisa bibliográfica. O trabalho está fundamentado em pressupostos teóricos de autores como: Iúri Lótman, Hilário Franco, Umberto Eco, Roger Siverstone, Rose Rocha, Maurice Halbwachs, Johan Huizinga, Roger Caillois, Martine Segalen, João Machado Pais, Michel Maffesoli e Mônica Nunes, entre outros. Espera-se demonstrar que através do processo de semiose esses jovens criam novos significados e com isso concebem uma nova semiosfera voltada à (re)criação da Idade Média, através de uma prática que pode ser entendida como um jogo e uma performance e pelos processos rituais que experienciam.

Zugl.: Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss., 2006

This doctoral thesis studies a cycle of British film and television fictions produced in the years 2005-2011 and set retrospectively in the 1980s. In its identification and in-depth textual and contextual analysis of what it terms the ‘Eighties Cycle’, it offers a significant contribution to British film and television scholarship. It examines eighties-set productions as members of a sub-genre of British recent-past period dramas begging unique consideration outside of comparisons to British ‘heritage’ dramas, to contemporary social dramas or to actual history. It shows that incentives for depicting the eighties are wide-ranging; consequently, it situates productions within their cultural and industrial contexts, exploring how these dictate which eighties codes are cited and how they are textually used. The Introduction delineates the Eighties Cycle, establishes the project’s academic and historical basis and outlines its approach. Chapter 1 situates the work within the academic fields that inform it, briefly surveying histories and socio-cultural studies before examining and assessing existing scholarship on Eighties Cycle productions alongside critical literature on 1980s, 90s and contemporary British film and television; nostalgia and retro; modern media, history and memory; British and American period screen fiction; and transmedia storytelling. Chapter 2 considers how a selection of productions employing ‘the eighties’ as a visual and audio style invoke and assign meaning to commonly recognised aesthetic codes according to their targeted audiences and/or intended messages. Chapter 3 investigates semi-autobiographical dramas that bear the mark of remembering, from the vantage point of the present, a time of fast expansions and shifts in the global media landscape. Chapter 4 explores how historical fictions locate historical knowledge in the decade’s refraction through modern media and reconstruct, deconstruct or ironise these mediations to meet particular cultural or industrial demands. Chapter 5 identifies two spin-offs that exploit shifts toward transmedia production and distribution by using eighties iconography as the set pieces for an immersive fantasy world, considering how and why their source texts are adapted and what this implies for past representation. Finally, the Conclusion reviews the project’s findings and briefly considers possible factors for the cycle’s deceleration and transformation after 2011. Ultimately, this project sees the Eighties Cycle as a by-product of shifts in Britain toward advanced globalisation and new mediation that have facilitated access to domestic and international mediated recent pasts. These productions operate within a distinct recent-past period screen fiction mode, engaging audiences equipped with comprehensive notions of the eighties as circulated in media. Meaning is produced in how these notions are structured; sometimes they are lauded, sometimes parodied, sometimes criticised or ironised, and sometimes they are simply cited for the sheer pleasure of recall.

Cette thèse interroge les pratiques de mémoire hétérogènes qui ont émergé à propos de l’équipe de hockey du Canadien de Montréal dans le cadre du centenaire de l’équipe en 2009. Elle a le double objectif 1) d’apporter un éclairage théorique communicationnel sur l’objet « mémoire » et 2) de développer une analyse contextuelle des pratiques de mémoire et des enjeux qu’elles rendent effectifs. Mon travail s’inscrit dans le champ des memory studies, et particulièrement dans le tournant médiatique actuel, ainsi que dans celui des cultural studies. Au cours du chapitre consacré à la problématisation, je développe une approche communicationnelle de la mémoire en interrogeant la matérialité des pratiques de mémoire ainsi que leur relation co‐constitutive avec les médias de mémoire, réalisées dans le cadre du centenaire. Dans les deux chapitres analytiques, je procède à une analyse d’archives hétérogènes (articles de journaux, captures de sites internet, notes d’observation, interviews, émissions spéciales, publireportages etc.) issues de registres de mémoire différents. Le deuxième chapitre questionne les pratiques de mémoire à propos de l’ancien joueur du Canadien Léo Gravelle, telle la numérisation d’archives et la constitution de la « boîte à chaussures », la « biographisation », la conservation et la fétichisation, ainsi que leurs façons spécifiques de rendre présent des passés. Ce chapitre met en évidence comment des rapports familiaux, des enjeux liés au vieillissement et des formes de camaraderie sont réarticulés par ces pratiques. Le troisième chapitre investigue les pratiques de mémoire développées par l’organisation du Canadien de Montréal, telle la commémoration et la patrimonialisation de l’équipe ainsi que du hockey, et leur manière particulière de réarticuler la relation du sport professionnel à la ville ainsi que des enjeux liés à la philanthropie et au consumer activism. Le quatrième chapitre propose une discussion sur les faire mémoire, comme moyen d’ « espacer », de s’engager « en public » et comme projet qui mobilise et organise. Cette thèse conclue finalement sur ce qui constitue la singularité de ce centenaire. / This dissertation explores the heterogeneous practices of memory that emerged during the centennial anniversary of the hockey team Canadien de Montréal in 2009. The dissertation’s goals are twofold: 1) bring a theoretical and a communicational light on the object ‘memory’; 2) produce a contextual analysis of these memory practices and of the issues they render effectives. My dissertation is situated in the fields of memory studies (especially in its current media turn) and cultural studies. In the first chapter dedicated to the ‘problematization’ of the centennial, I explore this event by a communicational approach of memory. This approach aims to interrogate the materiality of the practices of memory and their co‐constitutive relation with media of memory. In the two following analytical chapters, I proceed by analyzing a heterogeneous archive (newspaper articles, websites excerpts, observation notes, interviews, tv shows, etc.) from different registers of memory.The second chapter focuses on the practices of memory regarding the former hockey player Léo Gravelle. I analyze how practices –such as archive digitalization, constitution of a ‘shoebox’,‘biographization’, conservation and ‘fetichization’ –render present some pasts in specific manners. This chapter highlights how familial relations, aging issues and particular forms of friendships are rearticulated through these practices of memory. The third chapter analyses the practices of memory developed by the organization of the Canadien de Montréal. I explore the commemoration and the patrimonialisation of the team. I also focus on the particular ways in which these practices of memory rearticulate the relationships between a professional sport team and the city of Montreal and how they put forward new issues such as philanthropy and consumer activism. The fourth chapter discusses about the implications of ‘doing memory’, which I conceive as a means to ‘space’, as a manner of being involved as well as a project that mobilizes and organizes. I conclude the dissertation by outlining the singular elements which constitute this centennial anniversary.