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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. --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

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Nina Schneider is a research fellow at the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne.

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