Abstract
The article approaches Rebel Years, a serial of Rede Globo Television that was displayed between June and August of 1992. It was the first time that the television station explicitly approached the theme of the military regime, and the show’s presentation happened at a decisive moment in the process of political democratization of the country: the campaign for “Fora Collor” (Collor Out). The analysis slightly outlines the general conditions, the circumstances of production and the plot of the miniseries, giving emphasis in one specific story. Its objective is to examine different representations of the cultural industry in the Brazilian telefiction with a reflexive repercussion about the attitude of academic studies themselves in relation to the object. Far from the disparaging judgments about the “inherent worthlessness” of symbolic goods associated with the expanded pole of cultural production, the argument advanced here is that such objects always perform unsuspected practical, economic, social, political, and cultural functions that justify the effort of a sociological analysis.
Keywords:
Cultural industry; television; telefiction; serial; figure