Talking to the food: MasterChef and the soliloquy as a privileged access to authenticity

Authors

  • Carlos Eduardo Marquioni UTP - Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná
  • Fernando Andacht Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná e Universidade da República de Montevidéu.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2017.2.24523

Keywords:

Reality show, Soliloquy, Indexicalsigns

Abstract

The article posits an analysis and a historical contextualization of the television franchise of gastronomic competition MasterChef construed as a hybrid of reality show and talent show. Together with the revelation of the culinary competence of the participants (talent), the audience has access to what they are expected to consider to be the authentic emotions of the aspiring chefs (reality), to their intimacy, through the recurrent use in the narrative economy of the program of a way of talking that is unnatural in everyday life, namely, the soliloquy. By revisiting the history of this kind of monologue in literature and drama, we present an attempt to understand what the authors argue is the phenomenon of the authenticity effect in MasterChef. We analyze five variants of the soliloquy in the franchise; they are drawn from episodes of the Brazilian, Argentinian and American editions of the TV show.

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Author Biographies

Carlos Eduardo Marquioni, UTP - Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná

Docente do programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em Comunicação e Linguagens da Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. Mestre e Doutor em Comunicação e Linguagens, é membro dos grupos de pesquisa Interações comunicacionais, imagens e culturas digitais (INCOM/PPGCom UTP) e Estudos Culturais (GECU/Unesp Franca).

Fernando Andacht, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná e Universidade da República de Montevidéu.

Fernando Andacht é Professor Titular no Departamento de Teoria e Metodologia, Faculdad de Información & Comunicación, Universidad de la República de Montevidéu e Professor compartilhado do Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná.

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Published

2017-03-24

How to Cite

Marquioni, C. E., & Andacht, F. (2017). Talking to the food: MasterChef and the soliloquy as a privileged access to authenticity. Revista FAMECOS, 24(2), ID24523. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2017.2.24523

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Television

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