Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno

News and Novela in Brazilian Media

Fact, Fiction, and National Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Brazil's ever-popular telenovelas-a televised mini-series that use recent news issues to help frame its plots. This work increases in importance as more audiences in Brazil rely on diversifying news sources for key decision-making information; and media systems tussle with information presentation and democratic behaviors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780739189788
• ISBN-10: 0739189786
• Artikelnr.: 40788445

Autorenporträt

Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Loyola University Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Dynamics of Fact and Fiction and a Rising Power
Chapter 2: News and Novela Media in Brazil Chapter 3: The Media and the
Approach Chapter 4: Race and Class Representations as Indicators of
Brazilian Media Opening Chapter 5: Media Marginalizations of Peoples and
Places Chapter 6: Versions of Syncretism: Candomblé, Catholicism and
Expressions of Belief Chapter 7: Female Leaders' Portrayals among Brazilian
Media Chapter 8: Conclusion: News and Novela as a Forecast for Brazilian
Media Opening?