Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... television in Brazil in 1950. The first program seen in the country was broadcast in São Paulo on the night of September 18 , and it launched Brazil's first television station , T.V. Tupi , which became the latest part of ...
... TV Globo , for example , that led the way in introducing programs in color ... Tupi in 1967. Featuring the antics of a comic quartet , it entered the ... TV Record launched two music shows that proved to be enormously popular with young ...
... TV Tupi , which was the first telenovela to achieve a mass audience in Brazil . Written by the Cuban , Felix Caignet , it enjoyed similar success in many other Latin American coun- tries , enthralling viewers with turbulent love affairs ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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