Publication

Mirian Tavares and Florence Dravet have published an article about the series “The Midnight Gospel”

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The latest edition of the Journal Famecos features the article “The Myth of Puer Aeternus in The Midnight Gospel: Psychological Health and Meditation” authored by Florence Dravet, a researcher at the Catholic University of Brasília, and Mirian Tavares, coordinator and researcher at CIAC.

The article aims to demonstrate, through an analysis of the series The Midnight Gospel (2020), how digital narrative explores, enhances, and reinterprets mythological themes in contemporary times. The authors draw upon theories of the imaginary and narrative studies to analyze the myth of puer aeternus in the series, revealing the challenges of adulthood in a world where social reality is permeated by simulations or escapism.

It concludes that the narrative assumes a pedagogical, dialogical, and interactive role, present in orality and conversational practices, and that meditation is a necessary practice for psychological health, as stated in the article abstract.

The Midnight Gospel is an animated series that premiered in 2020, created by Pendleton Ward and Duncan Trussell. It follows the adventures of Clancy, a spacecaster who ventures out into the universe to interview various creatures about existential questions.

About the authors:

Florence Dravet holds a Ph.D. in Didactics of Languages and Cultures from the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, with a postdoctoral degree from the University of Algarve (UAlg), Portugal. She is currently a professor in the Innovation Program in Communication and Creative Economy at the Catholic University of Brasília (UCB), in Brasília, DF, Brazil.

Mirian Tavares holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Contemporary Culture from the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil). She is the Coordinator of the Research Center in Arts and Communication (CIAC) and a full professor at the University of Algarve (UAlg), Portugal.

The article is available in open access (here)

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The Journal Famecos is a publication of the Graduate Program in Social Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, established in September 1994. It is a scholarly-academic journal widely cited in theses, dissertations, articles, and books in Brazil, publishing only original and unpublished articles.