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Author Joyce, Samantha Nogueira, 1976-

Title Brazilian telenovelas and the myth of racial democracy / Samantha Nogueira Joyce
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (v, 129 pages)
Series Critical studies in television
Critical studies in television.
Contents Episode 1: And let there be white -- Black flows: Duas caras, the legacy of whitening and racial democracy -- "My little whitey", "my big, delicious negro": telenovelas, Duas caras and the representation of race -- Deu no blogão! ("it was in the big blog!"): writing a telenovela, a blog, and a metadiscourse -- Duas caras as a new approach to social merchandising -- Conclusions
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-123) and index
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SUBJECT Duas caras (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012005285
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Subject Television soap operas -- Brazil -- History and criticism
Television soap operas -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Black people on television.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference.
Black people on television
Television soap operas
Television soap operas -- Social aspects
Brazil
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021697878
ISBN 9780739169650
0739169653
9780739169650