E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten
Navitski Public Spectacles of Violence
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7289-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil
E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7289-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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 modernization.
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A Note on Usage ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I. Sensationalizing Violence in Mexico
1. Staging Public Violence in Porfirian and Revolutionary Mexico, 1896–1922 31
2. On Location: Adventure Melodramas in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920–1927 85
Part II. Staging Spectacles of Modernity in Brazil
3. Reconstructing Crime in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, 1906–1913 123
4. The Serial Craze in rio de Janeiro, 1915–1924: Reception, Production, Paraliterature 167
5. Regional Modernities: Sensational Cinema Outside Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, 1923–1930 199
Conclusion 247
Notes 259
Bibliography 297
Index 315