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Marcia Maria Arco E Flexa Ferreira Da Costa.Pdf UNIVERSIDADE PRESBITERIANA MACKENZIE MÁRCIA MARIA ARCO E FLEXA FERREIRA DA COSTA OS JETSONS COMO ESPECTRO DA SOCIEDADE Análise crítica do desenho animado “The Jetsons” sob a ótica do conceito de espetáculo de Debord SÃO PAULO 2010 MÁRCIA MARIA ARCO E FLEXA FERREIRA DA COSTA OS JETSONS COMO ESPECTRO DA SOCIEDADE Análise crítica do desenho animado “The Jetsons” sob a ótica do conceito de espetáculo de Debord Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Artes e História da Cultura da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie como requisito parcial à obtenção do título de Mestre em Educação, Artes e História da Cultura. Orientadora: Profa. Dra. Márcia Angelita Tiburi. SÃO PAULO 2010 C837j Costa, Márcia Maria Arco e Flexa Ferreira da. Os Jetsons como espectro da sociedade / Márcia Maria Arco e Flexa Ferreira da Costa – 2010. 139 f. : il. ; 30 cm Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação, Artes e História da Cultura) - Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, 2010. Bibliografia: f. Orientador: Márcia Angelita Tiburi 1.Indústria Multicultural 2. Desenho Animado 3. The Jetsons 4. Sociedade do Espetáculo 4. Guy Debord. I. Título. CDD 778.5347 MÁRCIA MARIA ARCO E FLEXA FERREIRA DA COSTA OS JETSONS COMO ESPECTRO DA SOCIEDADE Análise crítica do desenho animado “The Jetsons” sob a ótica do conceito de espetáculo de Debord Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós- Graduação em Educação, Artes e História da Cultura da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie como requisito parcial à obtenção do título de Mestre em Educação, Artes e História da Cultura. Aprovado em de 2010. BANCA EXAMINADORA ___________________________________________________________________ Profa. Dra. Márcia Angelita Tiburi – Orientador Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie Profa. Dra. Regina Célia Faria Amaro Giora Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie ___________________________________________________________________ Profa. Dra. Liana Gottlieb Faculdade Cásper Líbero Ao meu marido, que, em seu cuidado tão especial, aceitou comigo mais este desafio. Aos nossos filhos, aos quais amo com amor sublime. Aos meus pais, com muito carinho e alegria. Aos meus sogros, que me amam com amor inexplicável! AGRADECIMENTOS Agradecer é mais do que dizer muito obrigado. Mais do que simplesmente reconhecer que o produto de um trabalho se deveu ao esforço de algumas pessoas em especial. Mas é dar honra a quem honra. Da família aos parentes. Do Mackenzie (sua estrutura, doutores e colegas) a CAPES (pela oportunidade e custeio). Das aulas à orientadora, Márcia. Sem vocês não haveria este trabalho. Sem cada um dos que são parte deste complexo e importante grupo não haveria mais este passo. A cada um de vocês, meu carinho, meu respeito, meu singelo e verdadeiro obrigado por reconhecerem em mim a possibilidade de caminhar, sobretudo por proporcionarem esta oportunidade através de suas múltiplas e imbricadas colaborações. Um agradecimento, porém, é permanente, é eterno, é desde o princípio de todas as coisas. Jesus Cristo é quem me resgatou de um mundo de sombras, quem me tirou do nada a que eu estava destinada e me trouxe para perto de todos aqueles a quem menciono acima. Nele estão ocultos todos os tesouros da sabedoria e do entendimento (Gnosis e Sophia). De um modo extraordinário ele me livrou e me capacitou; me amou e me salvou. Ele fez tudo para que em todos os momentos eu, apesar de mim, estivesse sensível ao mundo que me rodeia e do qual somos todos parte, para que sobre ele eu pudesse refletir e buscar contribuir em função de algo maior e melhor! Jesus é o mesmo ontem, hoje e para sempre. Sua existência, mesmo negada, atesta sua verdade. Mesmo refutado, ele dividiu a história em antes e depois de si mesmo. Crer ou não no Cristo encarnado não o faz maior ou menor na existência do mundo, na importância deste como fato histórico e inquestionável em suas implicações. Mesmo andando em um raio de 300 quilômetros ao longo de toda a sua vida e cumprindo um ministério de apenas três anos, ele faz história até hoje. Ele fez a minha e continua a fazê-la, pois suas misericórdias se renovam a cada manhã! Obrigada, Jesus, pela salvação que creio haver em seu nome. Pela transformação da minha vida, pelo resgate eterno e irrefutável, pelo amor que reconheço vir de ti, primeiro. E, sobretudo, obrigada pela cruz do Calvário, sem a qual eu não estaria pronta para mais este passo! RESUMO A presente dissertação se propôs a analisar criticamente três episódios do desenho animado The Jetsons, de 1968, inter-relacionando seus diversos temas e imagens com os aforismos do filósofo Guy Debord, em sua obra A Sociedade do Espetáculo, de 1967. Essa análise crítica buscou refletir acerca do desenho animado como espectro da sociedade, compreendendo espectro como imagem fantasmagórica, sombra ou reflexo do real. No contexto deste trabalho o real se confunde com o espectro, pois, imbricados, recriam as relações na sociedade, reificando tudo e todos, trazendo à tona a relação do espectador consumidor, do personagem fictício criado na relação social mediada por imagens. Buscando a compreensão entre o sujeito ou o indivíduo que se assevera enquanto tal, mas é imagem alienada de um homem reificado que, enquanto mercadoria, se relaciona através de um mundo de imagens que ele pensa serem reais, mas que conduzem sua história e suas relações em sociedade. Problematizamos o modo como os desenhos são vistos de forma pouco reflexiva, de maneira geral – vistos ingenuamente por pais, professores, educadores e crianças –, sem a devida interpretação ou diálogo acerca das imagens e temas consumidos através da tela da televisão nos mais variados objetos e comportamentos. Frente à relevância do desenho animado na cultura, educação e formação infantil, pontuamos, através da decupagem dos episódios, a relação de diversos atributos do desenho à leitura que Debord já fazia da sociedade e que, noutro sentido, prefigura a sociedade ainda por vir. Quanto à inserção do termo “indústria multicultural”, este se deu por supor um passo além da indústria cultural, no sentido de que o desenho animado, neste contexto, é um produto a ser consumido em muitos países para ser rentável, sendo, portanto, comprado por diversas culturas. A natureza dos inúmeros temas tratados nos desenhos animados pareceu muito relevante frente à sociedade e ao cidadão em formação e, por esta razão, pontuaram-se questões como tecnologia, consumo, alienação e violência, entre os temas tratados no desenho e tão pertinentes ao desenvolvimento dos educandos cidadãos formados ao longo da história. PALAVRAS-CHAVES: Indústria Multicultural. Desenho Animado. The Jetsons. Sociedade do Espetáculo. Guy Debord, Televisão. ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to examine three episodes of the cartoon The Jetsons, from 1968, interrelating its various themes and images with the aphorisms of the philosopher Guy Debord in his book The Society of the Spectacle, 1967. This review sought to reflect on the cartoon as a spectrum of society, understanding spectrum as a ghostly image, shadow or reflection of reality. In the context of this work is indistinguishable from the real spectrum, therefore, overlapping, recreate the relationships in society. Reifying everything and everyone. Showing the relationship of the consumer audience, the fictional character that leaves in a society where relations are mediated by images. Seeking understanding between the individual and an alienated image of a man who is reified, while, in fact, is connected through the world by images that he thinks are real, but that lead for the individuals, their history and their relations in society overstepping themselves. We question how cartoons are seen from an outthought and generalist point of view many times. Naively seen by parents, teachers, educators and children - without proper interpretation and dialogue about the images, where themes are consumed through the television screen in a variety of ways and behaviors. Facing the relevance of the cartoon in culture, education and in children training, we point out through the decoupage of the episodes, the relationship of many attributes of the cartoon that were already described by Debord's understanding of the society and that, in another sense, prefigures the society to come. As for the insertion of the term "multicultural industry", this happened by assuming a step beyond the cultural industry, in the sense that the cartoon in this context is a product to be consumed in many countries in order to be profitable, therefore, has to be purchased by various cultures. The nature of the different subjects covered in the cartoon seems very relevant to society as growing students and futures citizens throughout history. For that reason, scored-issues such as technology, consumption, violence and alienation among the other topics are addressed in this dissertation through the cartoon. KEY WORDS: Multicultural Industry. Cartoons. The Jetsons. Society of the Spetacule. Guy Debord, Television. LISTA DE FIGURAS Figura 1. Hanna e Barbera, criadores de “The Jetsons”. .......................................... 52 Figura 2. Quadros do episódio Elroy na TV. ............................................................. 66 Figura 3. Quadros do episódio Elroy na TV. ............................................................. 66 Figura 4. Quadros do episódio Elroy na TV. ............................................................. 67 Figura 5. Quadros do episódio Elroy na TV. ............................................................. 68 Figura 6. Quadros do episódio Elroy
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