‘Sandman’ de Neil Gaiman sob a óptica do regime noturno das imagens

Resumo (EN)

This work aims to show one of the most celebrated works and awarded of comics, Sandman, of prolific English author Neil Gaiman, the postmodernist elements of this work, showing that it is a characteristic so striking this author, in all his works. Sequentially we'll show that our object of study It was built through the assemblage of myths, fantasies and legends which are social links conditioners, thus an excellent example so represent a mass culture product so characteristic of twentieth century. The comics are a kind of product what serving the needs this syncretic action which is the homogenization of culture. We also try to show that our object leads us directly to a part of the imaginary theory developed by thinker Gilbert Durand. When we compare other author's works with our object can identify very clearly, the temporality of postmodernity, so remarkable in his work. We show well as any product of mass culture, even when innovative, or original. The authors of mass culture products, usually go the ancient past get the needed references to build their narratives. In the Gaiman's case, it uses various mythologies, mainly Greek-Roman, using a lot of medieval legends and direct references the age of gold and silver of comics all combined with gothic scene, post-punk, that marked the 1980s. We will also show that despite all grim spirit. Lastly, we will also show that despite all grim spirit of Sandman, our object of study also brings the harmonics and gregarious universe so well outlined in studies of Gilbert Durand on The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary, especially in nightly reign of images. The research was based on an extensive literature search based on the theoretical imaginary, Myth and Culture such as Edgar Morin, Gilbert Durant, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, Norval Baitello Jr. and Malena Contrera among many others.