Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America 1896-1960 Review
Public Spectacles of Violence
Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early on Twentieth-Century United mexican states and Brazil
Volume
Pages: 344
Illustrations: 45 illustrations Published: June 2017
Subjects
Media Studies > Film, Latin American Studies > Brazil, Mexico
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 United mexican states and Brazil, which were among Latin America's most industrialized nations and afterward developed two of the region'southward largest film industries. Navitski analyzes a wide range of sensational cultural forms, from nonfiction films and serial movie theatre to illustrated police reportage, series literature, and fan magazines, demonstrating how media spectacles of violence helped audiences brand sense of the political instability, high crime rates, and social inequality that came with modernization. In both nations, sensational cinema and journalism—influenced past 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 aforementioned 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, law, and organized offense are hypervisible.
Praise
"Public Spectacles is an artful and enthralling reflection on the interaction betwixt 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 of import 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 movie house of Brazil and Mexico." — Pablo Alvira, History
"Public Glasses 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 shut relationship between journalism and film. This volume will exist of involvement to students and researchers working on early Latin American cinema; the relationship between American and Latin American film; and flick and cinema as an expression of Latin American nationalism. For readers outside of moving picture studies who are interested in spectacles of violence, the volume presents invaluable enquiry 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, disarming, elegant, and exemplary work of the emerging notwithstanding momentous field of Latin American silent picture palace studies. It is a not bad read, a crucial contribution to its sub-specialty and to movie theatre studies in full general, and representative of some of the best new scholarship in the area." — Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Rielle Navitski is Banana Professor of Theatre and Moving picture Studies at the University of Georgia and coeditor of Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896–1960.
A Note on Usage ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Office I. Sensationalizing Violence in Mexico
1. Staging Public Violence in Porfirian and Revolutionary Mexico, 1896–1922 31
2. On Location: Take a chance Melodramas in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920–1927 85
Role 2. Staging Glasses of Modernity in Brazil
3. Reconstructing Crime in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, 1906–1913 123
iv. 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
Alphabetize 315
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