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A improbabilidade da comunicação em Monty Python
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São inúmeros os trabalhos sobre a comunicação. Ainda que em menor quantidade, mas igualmente estimulantes, são aqueles que abordam a questão do humor. A universidade tem-se ocupado de Niklas Luhmann, e sobre os Monty Python Leah Kaplan fez, em 2010, uma tese de mestrado intitulada A New Theory About the Brontosaurus: Humor as Absurdity and the Violation of Expectations in Monty Python's Flying Circus. A diferença do nosso trabalho, pelo menos assim se espera, reside em juntar estes dois elementos, fazer a ponte entre a comunicação e o humor e, em particular, entre a teoria da improbabilidade da comunicação do sociólogo alemão e os sketches do grupo britânico.
O nosso objectivo consiste em demonstrar que a comunicação improvável referida por Luhmann está presente, para o bem e para o mal, na nossa cultura, nomeadamente na cultura popular e no humor televisivo. Quanto à organização do trabalho, optámos por dividi-lo em duas grandes partes. Na primeira faremos uma contextualização teórica do humor e da comunicação, com definição de conceitos, apresentação de algumas teorias que podem ser relevantes para o tema e uma tentativa de aproximação entre estas duas áreas. A segunda parte será mais prática, consistindo na análise de sketches e de cenas de filmes.
Abstract: There are many academic works about communication. Still interesting, although not so common are the ones that examine the issue of humor. The academic world has dealt with Niklas Luhmann in the past. Leah Kaplan wrote his master’s thesis in 2010 about the Monty Python, entitled A New Theory About the Brontosaurus: Humor as Absurdity and the Violation of Expectations in Monty Python's Flying Circus. Our work will differ from these previous studies insofar as it aims at uniting the two elements and to create a bridge between communication and humor, particularly between the theory of the improbability of communication developed by the German sociologist and the sketches created by the British group. 3 Our goal is to demonstrate that Luhmann’s improbable communication is present in our culture whether we like it or not. It is especially evident in popular culture and television comedy. We decided to divide the dissertation in two sections. Firstly we will do a theoretical contextualization of humor and communication. We will define concepts and present some theories which may be relevant to the topic. We will also try to bring these two areas closer together. The second section will deal with a more practical analysis of sketches and movie scenes.
Abstract: There are many academic works about communication. Still interesting, although not so common are the ones that examine the issue of humor. The academic world has dealt with Niklas Luhmann in the past. Leah Kaplan wrote his master’s thesis in 2010 about the Monty Python, entitled A New Theory About the Brontosaurus: Humor as Absurdity and the Violation of Expectations in Monty Python's Flying Circus. Our work will differ from these previous studies insofar as it aims at uniting the two elements and to create a bridge between communication and humor, particularly between the theory of the improbability of communication developed by the German sociologist and the sketches created by the British group. 3 Our goal is to demonstrate that Luhmann’s improbable communication is present in our culture whether we like it or not. It is especially evident in popular culture and television comedy. We decided to divide the dissertation in two sections. Firstly we will do a theoretical contextualization of humor and communication. We will define concepts and present some theories which may be relevant to the topic. We will also try to bring these two areas closer together. The second section will deal with a more practical analysis of sketches and movie scenes.
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Tese de mestrado, Cultura e Comunicação, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2013
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Monty Python Humor Comunicação - Aspectos sociais Teses de mestrado - 2013