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News and Novela in Brazilian Media
Fact, Fiction, and National Identity
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2014
Summary
Citizens everywhere are turning to multiple news sources to inform their daily decisions. In Brazil, an emerging global power and democracy, those sources include the ever-popular telenovelas and, on a rising basis, newspapers. News and Novela in Brazilian Media: Fact, Fiction, and National Identity examines how news issues help frame telenovela plots, comparing key issues across Brazilian media to highlight differing levels of progression associated with press freedom. Scrutiny of concurrent print news stories, print news photos, and telenovela scenes indicate that when a hit telenovela is compared to news, the novela becomes a more progressive storyteller. At least, race, class, gender, and religious news issues seem more progressive: An Afro-Brazilian wins a local election; a favela or shantytown is idealized; a less popular African religion is heralded while Protestantism is marginalized and Catholicism continues as the right religion; and women achieving power leads to a more egalitarian society. In a diversifying media environment, where lines between fact and fiction are increasingly blurred, Brazilian alternative news studies are critical measures of Brazil’s state of media opening that inform national identity formation.
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Edition
1/2014
Copyright Year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8978-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8979-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
149
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgements No access
1 Dynamics of Fact and Fiction and a Rising Power No access Pages 1 - 14
2 News and Novela Media in Brazil No access Pages 15 - 38
3 The Media and the Approach No access Pages 39 - 60
4 Race and Class Representations as Indicators of Brazilian Media Opening No access Pages 61 - 74
5 Media Marginalizations of Peoples and Places No access Pages 75 - 86
6 Versions of Syncretism: Candomblé, Catholicism, and Expressions of Belief No access Pages 87 - 102
7 Female Leaders’ Portrayals among Brazilian Media No access Pages 103 - 114
8 News and Novela as a Forecast for Brazilian Media Opening and National Identity No access Pages 115 - 126
