A pequena temporalidade: o cronotopo da cidade em Master of None

Abstract

Time has been an object of analysis since the philosophers of nature, being understood, at first, as a measurable order of movement. Much later, it started to be examined by Physics, during the period that is confused with the very establishment of the area as a science. The concept of space, on the other hand, despite following a similar path, has always enjoyed less prestige, at least in philosophy. With Einstein, protagonist in the shakeout of classical mechanics, the two concepts were understood together, one constituting the other. Bakhtin, taking advantage of the paradigm shift, projects what he called chronotope to, among other significations, explain the stabilities in the genres of Literature. Expanding the category, this thesis deals with another material for analysis: the series. In this genre, as it is in life, certain acts have distinct times and spaces, so that the choice for one or another film feature, ideologically values the fictitious event, giving it the finish desired by the professionals responsible for the production. When resuming emotive-volitive indices, these features build minor chronotopes (chronotopic motifs or small chronotopes), therefore being able to, as a whole, demonstrate a predominant time-space. In that sense, it is investigated, from a dialogical angle - that is, anchoring itself in Dialogical Discourse Analysis (DDA) -, the time-space in the formation of the city, using as corpus scenes from the two (2) seasons of the series Master of None, produced by Netflix. The objective is to identify, analyze and discuss the most regular minor chronotopes - the coordinates of time in space -, to understand the dominant chronotope of the city in the universe of the series, in order to reveal the relations mobilized in the fictional city, thus manifesting the basic organizational centers of events and, in turn, the particular representation of man and life. For that, the following specific objectives are required: (i) to interpret the smaller chronotopes, identifying patterns; (ii) relate the smaller chronotopes, problematizing the suggested image of man and the culture inherent to his performance; (iii) discuss implicit dialogic relationships. This research is part of Applied Linguistics (AL), with a qualitative approach, socio-historical focus and evidential paradigm.