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Public Spectacles of Violence : Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil /

Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of violence in in early-twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, showing how sensational media helped audiences make sense of the political instability, crime, violence, and change in daily life that accompanied modernizatio...

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Autor principal: Navitski, Rielle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sensationalizing public violence in Mexico
  • Staging public violence in Porfirian and revolutionary Mexico, 1896-1922
  • On location: adventure melodramas in postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1927
  • Staging spectacles of modernity in Brazil
  • Reconstructing crime in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1906-1913
  • The serial craze in Rio de Janeiro, 1915-1924: reception, production, paraliterature
  • Regional modernities: sensational cinema outside Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
  • 1923-1930.