Travel knowledge – the travelogues in an amalgam of reality and spectacle
This article refects on the connections, not always so dichotomous, between socially <span> </span>legitimized discourses like reality and the discourses leaning on the notion of spectacle <span> </span>and entertainment, focusing thus on the universe of travelogues – trip mo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Matrizes |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/article/view/56658 |
| Summary: | This article refects on the connections, not always so dichotomous, between socially <span> </span>legitimized discourses like reality and the discourses leaning on the notion of spectacle <span> </span>and entertainment, focusing thus on the universe of travelogues – trip movies – very <span> </span>popular between between 1910 and 1930, especially in the context of the United States <span> </span>of America. On one side, the travelogues helped to shape the documentary narrative, <span> </span>reafrming a certain scientifc/educational legitimacy; on another hand, they mobi- <span> </span>lized a desire for spectacle and fascination with media reproduction technology that <span> </span>already had a privileged place in the popular imagination as an ambiguous form of <span> </span>entertainment and knowledge since the end of the 19th century.<span> </span> |
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| ISSN: | 1982-2073 1982-8160 |