Public spectacles of violence: sensational cinema and journalism in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil

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, 190...

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Main Author: Navitski, Rielle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2017
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 325 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780822372899
0822372894

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