Public Spectacles of Violence
Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil
1st Edition
Published on 18. May 2017
344 pages
978-0-8223-7289-9 (ISBN)
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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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Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil
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Rielle Navitski is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia and coeditor of Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960.
Content
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
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
