Extrema Direita e Documentário Conspiratório: estrutura e narrativa

Resumo (EN)

This study examines the discursive and narrative strategies employed in conspiratorial documentaries produced by the media company Brasil Paralelo and by the outlets The Epoch Times and Epoch Times Brasil . It seeks to understand how these audiovisual materials articulate mechanisms of persuasion and affective mobilization aligned with far-right ideologies. The research adopts Greimasian narrative semiotics as its methodological framework and analyzes a corpus of nine documentary films produced between 2018 and 2022 and freely available on YouTube. The analysis reveals a predominant use of objectifying camouflage, which simulates impartiality through features characteristic of traditional journalistic discourse, alongside elements of subjectivizing camouflage, often associated with trusted figures who establish affective connections with the audience. At the narrative level, the documentaries construct a worldview sustained by binary oppositions such as good/evil, people/elite, and true/false. Positive values are ascribed to conservative subjects, while opponents — frequently linked to the political left — are portrayed in a negative way. These productions establish narrative contracts in which viewers are invited to adopt conservative values in exchange for the promise of freedom and a sense of belonging to a group identified as the “true people”. The study argues that these works constitute a distinct documentary subgenre with its own grammar, articulating information, emotion, and ideology in ways that support authoritarian political projects and foster forms of engagement grounded in symbolic and affective dynamics.