"This ambitious, broad-ranging study of one of the world's most interesting genres laudably tries to cover the telenovela industry, its creative process, the contents of novelas, and their reception by the working class. Besides having the descriptive richness one might expect of a book-length case
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study, the work has a sophisticated and relatively thorough theoretical orientation [...] Overall this book is a very good introduction to Brazilian television and the telenovela in particular. It is also of considerable value to those interested in Bourdieu's ideas, questions of social class and audience in general, or ethnographic research about audiences in the Third World." (Book review by Joseph Straubhaar, in: Journal of Communication, Spring 1990, page 162-164)
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"Contributors discuss popular religion, popular music, comics, television, sports, photo-novels, film, festivals and carnivals, cartoons and newspapers. Most of the approaches are critical-methodological within the various disciplines of the writers, including literature, cultural anthropology, soci
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ology, philosophy, music, mass communications and history. Two approaches in particular emerge - the cultural imperialist and the semiological - based mostly on the works of Umberto Eco." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 191)
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"Entertainment, an ambiguous, many-faceted term, has many forms and uses, differing with cultures and individuals. In this wide-ranging reader the editors deal with its importance as supplied by the media. The scope is international, with contributors from a number of countries, and the emphasis is
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on theory and research. Various forms are discussed - newsreading, advertising, popular literature, television, the record and tape industry, story telling and traditional folk forme, often in relation to theory and in the context of a specific country. Intended for the college or university audiences and for people involved in the production of entertainment, or the general reader interested in the subject." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 125)
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"The purpose of this monograph is to show how smaller film production teams, using only simple equipment and materials, and often restricted by tight budgets, can achieve satisfactory animation effects. Through discussion of what animation can do, the mechanics of motion, and the fundamentals of pre
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paring for animation, the would-be animator is offered a variety of production methods, each with its specific quality, effect and impact." (Back cover)
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