"In addition to a historical overview of this topic from its beginning to the present, this work includes a chronological list of labor movement periodicals and newspapers from 1847 through 1986, giving their titles, publishers, and places of publication." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 19
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65-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)
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"This ambitious, broad-ranging study of one of the world's most interesting genres laudably tries to cover the telenovela industry, its creative process, the contents of novelas, and their reception by the working class. Besides having the descriptive richness one might expect of a book-length case
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study, the work has a sophisticated and relatively thorough theoretical orientation [...] Overall this book is a very good introduction to Brazilian television and the telenovela in particular. It is also of considerable value to those interested in Bourdieu's ideas, questions of social class and audience in general, or ethnographic research about audiences in the Third World." (Book review by Joseph Straubhaar, in: Journal of Communication, Spring 1990, page 162-164)
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Describes the political disputes around "TV Cultura" in São Paulo.
"Discusses historical films. Also provides an excellent teaching guide to films arranged by themes in Brazilian history. Includes an excellent bibliography on Brazilian film." (Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources. Ed. Paula H. Covington. New York et al.: Greenwood P
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ress, 1992, nr. 4328)
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"Um retrato da política de comunicação da Igreja no Brasil do século XVI até os dias de hoje, discutindo a relação entre Igreja e sociedade em matéria de produção na esfera cultural. Com base nas premissas da teologia da libertação, é enfatizada a necessidade de uma nova prática dialó
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gica da mídia." (commbox)
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"Transcrição de sete comerciais e seis programas por Silvio Santos. A partir disto, o autor conclui que o uso autoritário da linguagem que se torna aparente não é espontâneo, mas deliberadamente persuasivo. Coloca as observações no contexto de extensas considerações teóricas." (commbox)