Description: Edition statement from table of contents.
Brief description: Nina Schneider is Senior Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Review Quotes: "A formidable and genuine contribution to the study of the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964‒1985, a subject that has not yet been thoroughly explored even by Brazilian researchers."--Brasiliana "Revealing and timely. . . . Brazilian Propaganda asks questions largely overlooked during the nation's recent truth-seeking process."--Hispanic American Historical Review "A focused and rigorously analyzed study of . . . two government-run propaganda organs that produced short films, radio programs, and other propaganda material."--The Americas "Reveals a crisis of legitimacy that entangled public, private and government actors while provoking an aesthetic approach to propaganda that eschewed heavy-handed slogans and violent imagery for the utopian, optimistic and affective representations of the people."--Journal of Lusophone Studies "Informative, well researched, and thoughtful."--Bulletin of Latin American Research "Paints a comprehensive picture of how propaganda was produced under the military regime."--European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies "Schneider . . . consulted a rich number of primary and secondary sources and used multiple data-collection strategies--content analyses of film, of propaganda documents, and of Globo news, as well as interviews."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "An excellent synthesis: well-written, originally researched, skillfully drawing on exclusive sources, and addressing a neglected but important realm of study."--Latin Americanist "A formidable and genuine contribution to the study of the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964--1985, a subject that has not yet been thoroughly explored even by Brazilian Researchers."--Journal for Brazilian Studies