Next Thursday (02.09), soccer fans will be able to learn more about the relationship between the idols created by Brazil's most popular sport and the media. Professor Ronaldo Helal, from the Department of Communication Theory at the School of Social Communication at UERJ and the Postgraduate Program in Social Communication at the same institution, will teach a course entitled "The Country of Soccer, Beyond the Goals. Media, Idolatry, Politics and National Identity," at Casa do Saber (Av. Epitácio Pessoa, 1164 – Lagoa).
The course, divided into four sessions, held every Thursday at 19:30 p.m., aims to discuss media narratives in the construction of public figures of soccer idols and the construction of national identity through the sport. Media constructions are processed in a dialectical relationship with mythified objects, whether they be athletes or narratives that seek to connect playing styles with culture.
The course also proposes a greater understanding of the dynamics that drive Brazilian culture through a reflection on some of the symbols of Brazilian football.
Registration can be done through the website www.casadosaber.com.br or by phone 2227-2237, from Monday to Friday, from 11 am to 20 pm.
Service
Start: 02 SEP
Duration: 4 weekly meetings
Days/Times: Thursdays, at 19:30 pm (02/09, 09/09, 16/09, 23/09)
Value: R$ 160,00 upon registration + 1 installment of R$ 200,00
Lessons:
02 SEP | 1. FOOTBALL AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BRAZIL
How sports journalism contributed to the "construction" of national identity through football. The debate surrounding Mário Filho's book "O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro" (Black in Brazilian Football) and its importance in shaping the symbolism of Brazilian football. The decline of the "Homeland of Football Boots": the fading of discourse surrounding the "national" in recent World Cup successes and failures. What can we expect from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in terms of discourses on the "national"?
09 SEP | 2. THE HERO AND HIS TRIALS: THE RONALDO "PHENOMENON" CASE
The narrative surrounding Ronaldo's journey to herohood begins, paradoxically, in France in 1998, when the athlete succumbed to the intense expectations placed on him in the final. At that moment, fans "discovered" that the legend was a "man like any other," "slept hugging his father in difficult times," and, emblematically, was still "a boy." In the idol's "fall," we witness his "humanization." Instead of the "phenomenon," we "discover" Ronaldo the man, and pave the way for the athlete's heroic journey.
16 SEP | 3. ZICO AND ROMÁRIO: BRAZILIAN CULTURE AND ITS ANTAGONISM
Zico's biography: success through effort and hard work. Romário's biography: success through "irreverence" and "cunning." The narratives of the two athletes' trajectories speak to opposing models of heroes worshipped in our culture and show us that the constructions of their biographies are part of a dialectical relationship between the actions of the "mythologized objects"—Zico and Romário—and the social context.
23 SEP | 4. BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA: FROM "LOVING TO HATE" AND FROM "HATE TO LOVE"
The similarity of the symbolic "construction" of football in Brazil and Argentina. What do Argentines and Brazilians do when they "look" at their "neighbor's" football? Do they identify with or reinforce another, "more Brazilian" or "more Argentine" identity? Argentines "hate to love" Brazilians, while Brazilians "love to hate" Argentines. The "construction" and intensification of football rivalry. The stereotypes on both sides.
The course, divided into four sessions, held every Thursday at 19:30 p.m., aims to discuss media narratives in the construction of public figures of soccer idols and the construction of national identity through the sport. Media constructions are processed in a dialectical relationship with mythified objects, whether they be athletes or narratives that seek to connect playing styles with culture.
The course also proposes a greater understanding of the dynamics that drive Brazilian culture through a reflection on some of the symbols of Brazilian football.
Registration can be done through the website www.casadosaber.com.br or by phone 2227-2237, from Monday to Friday, from 11 am to 20 pm.
Service
Start: 02 SEP
Duration: 4 weekly meetings
Days/Times: Thursdays, at 19:30 pm (02/09, 09/09, 16/09, 23/09)
Value: R$ 160,00 upon registration + 1 installment of R$ 200,00
Lessons:
02 SEP | 1. FOOTBALL AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BRAZIL
How sports journalism contributed to the "construction" of national identity through football. The debate surrounding Mário Filho's book "O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro" (Black in Brazilian Football) and its importance in shaping the symbolism of Brazilian football. The decline of the "Homeland of Football Boots": the fading of discourse surrounding the "national" in recent World Cup successes and failures. What can we expect from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in terms of discourses on the "national"?
09 SEP | 2. THE HERO AND HIS TRIALS: THE RONALDO "PHENOMENON" CASE
The narrative surrounding Ronaldo's journey to herohood begins, paradoxically, in France in 1998, when the athlete succumbed to the intense expectations placed on him in the final. At that moment, fans "discovered" that the legend was a "man like any other," "slept hugging his father in difficult times," and, emblematically, was still "a boy." In the idol's "fall," we witness his "humanization." Instead of the "phenomenon," we "discover" Ronaldo the man, and pave the way for the athlete's heroic journey.
16 SEP | 3. ZICO AND ROMÁRIO: BRAZILIAN CULTURE AND ITS ANTAGONISM
Zico's biography: success through effort and hard work. Romário's biography: success through "irreverence" and "cunning." The narratives of the two athletes' trajectories speak to opposing models of heroes worshipped in our culture and show us that the constructions of their biographies are part of a dialectical relationship between the actions of the "mythologized objects"—Zico and Romário—and the social context.
23 SEP | 4. BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA: FROM "LOVING TO HATE" AND FROM "HATE TO LOVE"
The similarity of the symbolic "construction" of football in Brazil and Argentina. What do Argentines and Brazilians do when they "look" at their "neighbor's" football? Do they identify with or reinforce another, "more Brazilian" or "more Argentine" identity? Argentines "hate to love" Brazilians, while Brazilians "love to hate" Argentines. The "construction" and intensification of football rivalry. The stereotypes on both sides.