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

Rielle Navitski

Published by Duke University Press 2017

Public Spectacles of Violence

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

Rielle Navitski

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822372899

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“Public Spectacles is an artful and enthralling reflection on the interaction between urban visual culture forms and the violence of modernization. An excellent text to assign to advanced students.”

-- Jessica Stites Mor EIAL

“Public Spectacles of Violence is an important contribution to the historiography of Mexican and Brazilian cinematography and of Latin American silent cinema in general. A must for researchers and students interested in the early cinema of Brazil and Mexico.”

-- Pablo Alvira History

“Public Spectacles of Violence is essential for scholars of Latin American cinema. It offers conceptual and methodological tools that students and scholars of cinema, cultural studies, or history might use to approach the eternally resonant topic of violence and its symbolic representation.”

-- Georgina Torello Cinema Journal

"[Navitski] has provided new insights into the perception of sensational violence as a mark of modernization, and into the close relationship between journalism and film. This book will be of interest to students and researchers working on early Latin American cinema; the relationship between American and Latin American film; and film and cinema as an expression of Latin American nationalism. For readers outside of film studies who are interested in spectacles of violence, the book presents invaluable research on the roots of the sensational public treatment of violence that we continue to see in Latin American media today."

-- Corrie Boudreaux The Latin Americanist

"Public Spectacles of Violence is a compelling, convincing, elegant, and exemplary work of the emerging yet momentous field of Latin American silent cinema studies. It is a great read, a crucial contribution to its sub-specialty and to cinema studies in general, and representative of some of the best new scholarship in the area."

-- Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
A NOTE ON USAGE Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. STAGING PUBLIC VIOLENCE IN PORFIRIAN AND REVOLUTIONARY MEXICO, 1896–1922 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 2. ON LOCATION Adventure Melodramas in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920–1927 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
PART II. STAGING SPECTACLES OF MODERNITY IN BRAZIL
Chapter 3. RECONSTRUCTING CRIME IN RIO DE JANEIRO AND SÃO PAULO, 19 0 6–1913 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 4. THE SERIAL CRAZE IN RIO DE JANEIRO, 1915–1924 Reception, Production, Paraliterature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Chapter 5. REGIONAL MODERNITIES Sensational Cinema Outside Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1923–1930 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
CONCLUSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 45 illustrations

eBook

Published: May 18, 2017
ISBN: 9780822372899