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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789936303321

Autore

Joyce Samantha Nogueira <1976->

Titolo

Brazilian telenovelas and the myth of racial democracy [[electronic resource] /] / Samantha Nogueira Joyce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2012

ISBN

1-280-66652-8

9786613643452

0-7391-6965-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Collana

Critical studies in television

Disciplina

791.45/652996

Soggetti

Television soap operas - Brazil - History and criticism

Television soap operas - Social aspects - Brazil

Black people on television

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter One: Episode 1; Chapter Two: Black Flows; Chapter Three: "My Little Whitey," "My Big, Delicious Negro"; Chapter Four: Deu no Blogão! (It Was in the Big Blog!); Chapter Five: Duas Caras as a New Approach to Social Merchandising; Chapter Six: Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Samantha Nogueira Joyce's Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy traces the representations of Afro-Brazilians on television, culminating with the telenovela Duas Caras (2007-2008), and reveals how telenovelas contribute to social change in ways that have not been fully explored in previous scholarship. It also provides a comparative analysis between the representation of Blacks in Brazil and in the United States while it tracks the dynamic process thr