Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV Genre
A new type of Brazilian drama series has taken place on local TV - the cop shows. Although they are not popular as the telenovela (soap operas), definitively they came to stay. International channels like Fox and HBO are benefited by Tax Benefits Rule which provides financial conditions for the p...
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| description | A new type of Brazilian drama series has taken place on local TV - the cop shows. Although they are not popular as the telenovela (soap operas), definitively they came to stay. International channels like Fox and HBO are benefited by Tax Benefits Rule which provides financial conditions for the production of those home market, and are now competing with the two greatest media Brazilian groups – Record and Globo. The worldwide success of “Cidade de Deus” (City of God, 2002, Fernando Meirelles), released abroad like a gangster movie, and “Tropa de Elite” (Elite Squad, 2005, Jose Padilha), Berlin Golden Bear Award 2008, which sequel “Elit Squad: The Enemy Within” (2010) became the biggest box office record of Brazilian Cinema, could be partially contributed to motivate that new kind of production, which mix up social exclusion, urban violence with the very known old formulas of American serials, as the franchise “Law and Order” and its various spin-offs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d10cc69c305146f2ade45294b56d01992022-12-22T00:00:59ZengUniversity of PittsburghCINEJ Cinema Journal2159-24112158-87242014-04-013110712510.5195/cinej.2013.8363Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV GenreLuiza Lusvarghi0Universidade de São PauloA new type of Brazilian drama series has taken place on local TV - the cop shows. Although they are not popular as the telenovela (soap operas), definitively they came to stay. International channels like Fox and HBO are benefited by Tax Benefits Rule which provides financial conditions for the production of those home market, and are now competing with the two greatest media Brazilian groups – Record and Globo. The worldwide success of “Cidade de Deus” (City of God, 2002, Fernando Meirelles), released abroad like a gangster movie, and “Tropa de Elite” (Elite Squad, 2005, Jose Padilha), Berlin Golden Bear Award 2008, which sequel “Elit Squad: The Enemy Within” (2010) became the biggest box office record of Brazilian Cinema, could be partially contributed to motivate that new kind of production, which mix up social exclusion, urban violence with the very known old formulas of American serials, as the franchise “Law and Order” and its various spin-offs.http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/83Latin American Cultural studies, TV Genres, Interculturalism, Cop Shows |
| spellingShingle | Luiza Lusvarghi Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV Genre CINEJ Cinema Journal Latin American Cultural studies, TV Genres, Interculturalism, Cop Shows |
| title | Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV Genre |
| title_full | Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV Genre |
| title_fullStr | Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV Genre |
| title_full_unstemmed | Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV Genre |
| title_short | Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows as a Brazilian TV Genre |
| title_sort | law urban violence and order cop shows as a brazilian tv genre |
| topic | Latin American Cultural studies, TV Genres, Interculturalism, Cop Shows |
| url | http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cinej/article/view/83 |
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