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Author Trindade, Luís, 1971- author.

Title Narratives in motion : journalism and modernist events in 1920s Portugal / Luís Trindade
Published New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Remapping Cultural History ; Volume 15
Remapping cultural history ; Volume 15.
Contents Newspapers and modernist events -- Glancing over newspapers -- Travelling news -- The spectacle of sport -- The film of events -- The body of literature -- Reporter's revolution -- Storing information
Summary Interwar Portugal was in many ways a microcosm of Europe's encounter with modernity: reshaped by industrialization, urban growth, and the antagonism between liberalism and authoritarianism, it also witnessed new forms of media and mass culture that transformed daily life. This fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal explores how the new 'modernist reportage' embodied the spirit of the era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes, from political upheavals to lurid crimes of passion. In the process, LuIs Trindade illuminates the twofold nature of that journalism'both historical account and material object, it epitomized a distinctly modern entanglement of narrative and event
Analysis Media Studies, History: 20th Century to Present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Journalism -- Portugal -- History -- 20th century
Press and politics -- Portugal -- History -- 20th century
Reportage literature, Portuguese -- History and criticism
Portugese prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- Portugal
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Journalism
Modernism (Literature)
Press and politics
Reportage literature, Portuguese
Portugal
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781785331046
1785331043