Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil PDF
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PUBLIC SPECTACLES OF VIO LENCE This page intentionally left blank P U B L I C Sensational Cinema and Journalism S P E C TA C L E S in Early Twentieth- Century O F V I O L E N C E Mexico and Brazil Rielle Navitski Duke University Press Durham and London 2017 © 2017 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer ic a on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro by Westchester Publishing Services Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Navitski, Rielle, author. Title: Public spectacles of vio lence : sensational cinema and journalism in early twentieth- century Mexico and Brazil / Rielle Navitski. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2016054235 (print) lccn 2017001028 (ebook) isbn 9780822369639 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 9780822369752 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 9780822372899 (e- book) Subjects: lcsh: Motion pictures— Mexico— History—20th century. | Motion pictures— Brazil— History—20th century. | Sensationalism in motion pictures. | Vio lence in motion pictures. Classification: lcc pn1993.5.m6 n385 2017 (print) | lcc pn1993.5.m6 (ebook) | ddc 791.43097209/04— dc23 lc rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2016054235 Cover art: Execution scene from El automóvil gris. For my family This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS ix A Note on Usage xi Acknowle dgments 1 Introduction PART I. Sensationalizing Vio lence in Mexico 31 Chapter 1. Staging Public Vio lence in Porfirian and Revolutionary Mexico, 1896–1922 85 Chapter 2. On Location: Adventure Melodramas in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920–1927 PART II. Staging Spectacles of Modernity in Brazil 123 Chapter 3. Reconstructing Crime in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1906–1913 167 Chapter 4. The Serial Craze in Rio de Janeiro, 1915–1924: Reception, Production, Paraliterature 199 Chapter 5. Regional Modernities: Sensational Cinema Outside Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1923–1930 247 Conclusion 259 Notes 297 Bibliography 315 Index This page intentionally left blank A NOTE ON USAGE All translations from Spanish and Portuguese, except where other wise noted, are my own. For purposes of consistency, Portuguese spellings have been modernized in conformity with the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990, enacted in 2009. Films mentioned in the text have been attributed to individuals rather than production companies. Although the figure of the film director did not exist as such in many of the contexts analyzed herein, production companies were highly precarious, so I have preferred to cite the individuals involved and clarify their roles, where pos sib le, in the body of the text.
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