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Public Spectacles of Violence (eBook, PDF)

Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and technological catastrophe in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, which were among Latin America's most industrialized nations and later developed two of the region's largest film industries. Navitski analyzes a wide range of sensational cultural forms, from nonfiction films and serial cinema to illustrated police reportage, serial literature, and fan magazines, demonstrating how media spectacles of violence helped audiences make sense of the political instability, high crime rates, and social inequality that came with modernization. In both nations, sensational cinema and journalism-influenced by imported films-forged a common public sphere that reached across the racial, class, and geographic divides accentuated by economic growth and urbanization. Highlighting the human costs of modernization, these media constructed everyday experience as decidedly modern, in that it was marked by the same social ills facing industrialized countries. The legacy of sensational early twentieth-century visual culture remains felt in Mexico and Brazil today, where public displays of violence by the military, police, and organized crime are hypervisible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372899
• Artikelnr.: 54674767

Autorenporträt

Rielle Navitski

Inhaltsangabe

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