{"product_id":"public-spectacles-of-violence-9780822369752","title":"Public Spectacles of Violence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRielle 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePublic Spectacles\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePublic Spectacles of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePublic Spectacles of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePublic Spectacles of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u0026amp; 21st Century Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Usage  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Sensationalizing Violence in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e 1. Staging Public Violence in Porfirian and Revolutionary Mexico, 1896–1922  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. On Location: Adventure Melodramas in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920–1927  85\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Staging Spectacles of Modernity in Brazil\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reconstructing Crime in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, 1906–1913  123\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Serial Craze in rio de Janeiro, 1915–1924: Reception, Production, Paraliterature  167\u003cbr\u003e 5. Regional Modernities: Sensational Cinema Outside Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, 1923–1930  199\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  247\u003cbr\u003e Notes  259\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  297\u003cbr\u003e Index  315","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406106763607,"sku":"9780822369752","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369752.jpg?v=1730494551","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/public-spectacles-of-violence-9780822369752","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}