O roteirista que dirige: processos de criação do roteirista-diretor Jorge Furtado na ficção seriada brasileira

Abstract

This dissertation aims to study the craft of the writer-director who works in the Brazilian market of television fictional series, examining their main tasks, dispositions and creative processes. Throughout the research, the aim was to understand what happens when a professional concentrates these creative functions in the same fiction serials for television, starting from the knowledge of the different roles of scriptwriter and director of serial television drama. Since it was difficult to find studies that detailed this specific type of hybrid activity, it was decided to study the career and analyse the speeches of Jorge Furtado, the renowned writer-director of Brazilian series, who is also a filmmaker and multifaceted author of literary, cinematographic and television works. In order to analyse Furtado's career, which spans more than 40 years, the methodological basis was the concepts formulated by Pierre Bourdieu (1996) and Igor Sacramento (2014). In a complementary way, the analytical work was based on the problem-solution paradigm of Michael Baxandall (2006), combined with the perspective of David Bordwell (2008). Finally, by understanding the burdens, dispositions and responsibilities attributed to scriptwriters who direct, it was possible to draw up a profile of the craft of scriptwriter-director of fiction series.