<i>The Curse of the Black Valley</i> and the inversion of the formulas used to make audience cry
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https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v21i41.33434Keywords:
affective formulas, mediation, melodrama, theater in Rio de Janeiro, soap opera.Abstract
Exploring Aby Warburg’s concept of affective formulas, this article follows the inversion of the old melodramatic forms which appears in the 1988 Rio de Janeiro staging of The Curse of the Black Valley”, text by Caio Fernando Abreu and Luiz Arthur Nunes. Focused on the play’s reception, this essay also seeks to situate this mechanism, and the play itself, in the Rio context of a theater reframed within a new cultural setting of universalization of soap operas and its naturalist style of acting.Downloads
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