Contaminações na narrativa cômica: estudos a partir da série televisiva “Community”

Abstract

Community is a north American television series, created by Dan Harmon, that aired in the US between 2009 to 2015, its intention was to show how important is the “community” to the formation and realization of an individual, in the American society in the post 2008 crisis era. The general objective of this paper is to analyze how the series Community (2009-2015), found comedy, even in a saturated context as sitcoms, by utilizing unconventional elements to serial narrative and understand how using such genres as animation, video game and documentary was contaminated by the plot. To the realization of this study three episodes were selected, identifying the genres involved within the comic logic of the series. To do that, it will start of the basic principles of comic effect creation and will interline in the bibliography to justify the selection of these “new elements” as a way to find an original comedy. As a theorical referential to the analysis, were build dialogues mainly with Vladimir Propp and Henri Bergson, in their studies in Humor theory, with Verena Alberti in her reflections about the philosophical thought that surrounds laughter, with the contamination process, described by Christine Mello, and with the content analysis suggested by Bardin. The analyzes point that the contamination between genres provide comedy in Community, making the show a success among viewers, by innovating the approach of telling a story, by feeding a demanding audience with increasing difficulty to be surprised by contemporary audiovisual and being able, therefore, to create a comic speech. The narrative complexity of Community makes it a singular series, the way it searches for the comic effect beyond the limitations imposed by the sitcom genre in television is very specific and original