TROUBLE IN THE ‘PSYCHOSPHERE’: HBO’S TRUE DETECTIVE (2014) AS A HYBRID GENRE

Autores

  • Elisabete Lopes Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

Palavras-chave:

True Detective; Gótico; Gótico Sulista; Film Noir; Horror Cósmico; Investigação criminal

Resumo

Recentemente, tem-se assistido a uma crescente qualidade a nível das séries televisivas. Ao assumirem novos desafios, muitas delas tornaram-se séries de culto. True Detective (2014) figura neste grupo privilegiado. Nic Pizzolatto, a mente crativa por detrás de True Detective (2014), decidiu abraçar novos caminhos e acabou por criar uma série híbrida, no sentido em que conjuga elementos que vão desde o género Gótico, à investigação criminal, e se estendem até ao film noir e à Weird fiction. Outra característica que contribui para a popularidade de True Detective (2014), reside nos laços que tece com a literatura, uma vez que são evidentes as influências literárias a que alude. À luz deste cenário, pretende-se examinar de que forma é que a receita eclética proposta por Pizzolatto combina os seus diferentes ingredientes com o intuito de criar uma série que aposta nos parâmetros da qualidade e da originalidade. Com efeito, a inegável qualidade que se desprende de True Detective (2014) vai para além do consistente guião redigido por Pizzolatto; da brilhante atuação dos protagonistas; a hipnótica fotografia de Adam Arkapaw, à minuciosa realização a cargo de Cary Fukunaga. A série tornou-se num verdadeiro monstro visual que saiu inesperadamente dos pântanos da Louisiana, trazendo consigo uma aura de horror cósmico que, uma vez associado ao suspense e à investigação criminal, acaba por deixar o telespetador hipnotizado, em frente ao écran.

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Biografia do Autor

Elisabete Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

Professora Adjunta

Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal 

Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal 

SACEC- Secção Autónoma de Ciências Empresariais e Comunicação

Campus do IPS, Estefanilha

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TRUE Detective. Created by Nic Pizzolatto. Production: HBO, 2014.

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2020-04-21

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Lopes, E. (2020). TROUBLE IN THE ‘PSYCHOSPHERE’: HBO’S TRUE DETECTIVE (2014) AS A HYBRID GENRE. TROPOS: COMUNICAÇÃO, SOCIEDADE E CULTURA (ISSN: 2358-212X), 9(1). Recuperado de https://periodicos.ufac.br/index.php/tropos/article/view/3217

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Dossiê - A nova Era Dourada da Televisão: as séries contemporâneas