In that strange March of 2016: excess and repetition in Jornal Nacional

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of audiovisual archival material composed of editions of Jornal Nacional (JN) which were broadcast in March 2016, based on critical instruments from film studies. We consider this corpus as “archives of the present” in which we identify a dominant mode of action of JN as a resonance box for both unconfirmed accusations and their dissemination in other media. This text focus the JN’s treatment given to the plea bargain of Delcídio do Amaral, Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) senator then, and the imagetic dynamics in the selected editions –issues that reveal excess and repetition as fundamental procedures of a gradual “toxicity” (ELSAESSER, 2014) that reaches the spectator.

Keywords  Jornal Nacional ; cinema; archives of the present; toxicity