Geopoetics on the literary cinema: the myth of Cuca on television and on streaming
Interart studies; Cultural studies; Intersemiotics; Myth; Cuca.
his dissertation proposes to analyse the representations of the myth of Cuca in the oral narrative, in the children’s literary narrative of Monteiro Lobato in O Saci ([1921] 2016) and in the audiovisual narrative in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (1977-1986/2001-2007) and Invisible City (2021-). From the perspective of Interart Studies and Cultural Studies, we will delve into the concepts of cultures, folklore and geopoetry (SILVA JR, 2015), in addition to discussing the concepts and materializations of myth in popular culture. Still, we discuss the formation of children’s literature in Brazil, as it was based on ramifications of the mythological narrative, and how Monteiro Lobato revolutionized this market. From this point on, we will discuss the concepts of intermediality based on the works of Clüver (2006; 2007), Rajewsky (2005; 2012), Gaudreault and Marion (2015) to understand the connections and renewals that cultural products we analyse encompass. At the end, we develop an analysis that involves the field of popular culture, mythology and interarts studies to investigate the formations and transformations of the myth of Cuca in different media with the main objective of showing how her narrative is renewed and complexified over time and in intersemiotic transposition, thus remaining relevant in Brazilian culture.