Travel knowledge – the travelogues in an amalgam of reality and spectacle

Authors

  • Mariana Baltar UFF

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v7i1p263-279

Keywords:

reality efect, spectacle efect, travelogue

Abstract

This article refects on the connections, not always so dichotomous, between socially legitimized discourses like reality and the discourses leaning on the notion of spectacle and entertainment, focusing thus on the universe of travelogues – trip movies – very popular between between 1910 and 1930, especially in the context of the United States of America. On one side, the travelogues helped to shape the documentary narrative, reafrming a certain scientifc/educational legitimacy; on another hand, they mobi- lized a desire for spectacle and fascination with media reproduction technology that already had a privileged place in the popular imagination as an ambiguous form of entertainment and knowledge since the end of the 19th century.

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Author Biography

  • Mariana Baltar, UFF
    Professora da graduação em Estudos de Midia/UFF e do PPGCom/UFF. Doutora em Análise da Imagem e do Som pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação/UFF, com passagem pela New York University. Sua pesquisa mais recente envolve o universo dos gêneros que compartilham a mesma matriz cultural do excesso, tais como o melodrama, a pornografia e o horror.

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Published

2013-06-05

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Em Pauta/Agenda

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How to Cite

Baltar, M. (2013). Travel knowledge – the travelogues in an amalgam of reality and spectacle. MATRIZes, 7(1), 263-279. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v7i1p263-279