Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaTotalitarism in The Handmaid’s Tale: between manipulation and programming
In this paper, based on the regimes of meaning and interaction from sociosemiotics theory (LANDOWSKI, 2014), we aim to understand how the totalitarian regime of Gilead, a fictional nation in the dystopian series The Handmaid’s Tale, is constituted, taking as object of analysis the first episode, ent...
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Lenguaje: | Portugués |
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Faculdade de Ciências e Letras - Unesp - Araraquara.
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/cadernos/article/view/14195 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/65522 |
| Sumario: | In this paper, based on the regimes of meaning and interaction from sociosemiotics theory (LANDOWSKI, 2014), we aim to understand how the totalitarian regime of Gilead, a fictional nation in the dystopian series The Handmaid’s Tale, is constituted, taking as object of analysis the first episode, entitled Offred. From the articulation between the theoretical foundations – totalitarianism (ARENDT, 2012; NEUMANN, 1969; TURPIN, 2012) and sociosemiotics – and the reflections resulting from the analysis, we verified that both the manipulation and programming regimes legitimize the conservation of the totalitarian state. |
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