O corpo transformado em Extreme Makeover e Tabu América Latina: entre o mesmo e o outsider

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the extreme changes on the bodies in programs that represent the called reality TV, like reality shows and television documentaries. The body is socially constructed and falls over itself marks that identify and particularize the individual. Transform the surface of the body is a practice that provokes fascination, considering that it goes beyond just seeking a healthy look and perfect body, making embodied idea on the surface of the body. In this context, the body becomes a living record that are registered affections, emotions, representations of history and the subject of his time. While half the body is an instrument of communication and inscribes itself on a textual composition and culture of the social group, which appears resigned to their attitudes and their characterization. However, in the media there is almost no space for description of the actions of called outsiders, the name given by Norbert Elias and John Scotson, to people who, somehow, escape to normal standards, thus thematising processes of social stigmatization, common in many countries. The emergence of numerous bodily techniques and practices (re)physical modeling is anchored in the idea of autonomy and self-regulation of the subject in relation to his/her body, thereby reinforcing a behavior of aversion to bodies that deviate from the dominant aesthetic standard. Thus, the primary goal is to study the position and function of the body as text, and the ways in which the bodies are discursed - accepted standards, as well as outsiders bodies in the programs that comprise the corpus - Extreme Makerover and Tabu Latino America -, thus proposing a study of the maps of values and their communicative contracts. The passionate paths are examined from the semiotics of passions of Greimas and Fontanille, and discursive analyzes are carried out with contributions from Diana Barros, David Le Breton, Beatriz Pires, Bill Nichols and Joseph Campbell, prioritizing interactional issues that affect the body as communication tool. The passions, whether external or figurativizadas the programs, motivate attitudes that lead the individual to transform his own body, and media exposure enhances behavioral and aesthetic concepts and values that are positivized or negative results by common sense of the viewer who consumes this spectacular corporeality aportada on TV