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 It was the media entrepreneur Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand , already mentioned for his experience with radio , who introduced television in Brazil in 1950. The first program seen in the country was broadcast in São Paulo ...
... television stations were attempting to compete , but by then Globo was one of the largest television networks in the world and its dominant position was not seriously challenged . Series imported from the United States proliferated on ...
... television space for the expression of the dissent of 1960s youth culture . Music and comedy have always been essential ingredients of the extrava- gant and ever - popular variety shows that have long dominated weekend pro- gramming on ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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