This book presents an important contribution to the under-studied, but very influential Brazilian media industrial complex. Rosas-Moreno’s detailed analysis of the intersection of news and fictional telenovela narratives substantially expands our understanding of the complex ways Brazilian media-through intertextual relations-co-produce and frame national discourse. Joseph Straubhaar, University of Texas at Austin Her work is of great importance to those studying news, melodrama in all its forms, racial and gender issues, discourses about poverty, and portrayals of the hybridity of cultures, particularly in religion. Rosas-Moreno has innovated in both her conceptual framework and her methods to compare news and novelas in how they construct images that are central to the media representation of daily life and national identity across Latin America. 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.Įssential reading for Brazilianists-and even for laymen-who seek to revisit the relationship of the Brazilian media with soap operas, as well as a new look at the perspectives offered, related with national identity.īoth news and telenovelas are considered central to a nation’s ongoing self-definition and the construction of imagined community. 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. 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. 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. In Brazil, an emerging global power and democracy, those sources include the ever-popular telenovelas and, on a rising basis, newspapers. Citizens everywhere are turning to multiple news sources to inform their daily decisions.
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