In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity was turned on, he observed crowds of people lining up outside open windows or doors of the few homes possessing TV sets, intent on catching a glimpse of this fascinating novelty. Stoic, mute, and completely absorbed, they stood for hours contemplating every message and image presented. So begins the cultural turning point that is the basis of Amazon Town TV, a rich analysis of Gurupá in the decades during and following the spread of television.Pace worked with sociologist Brian Hinote to explore the sociocultural implications of television’s introduction in this community long isolated by geographic and communication barriers. They explore how viewers change their daily routines to watch the medium; how viewers accept, miss, ignore, negotiate, and resist media messages; and how television’s influence works within the local cultural context to modify social identities, consumption patterns, and worldviews.

Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Humor & Entertainment

Pace, Richard

Hinote, Brian P.

Television

University of Texas Press

In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity was turned on, he observed crowds of people lining up outside open windows or doors of the few homes possessing TV sets, intent on catching a glimpse of this fascinating novelty. Stoic, mute, and completely absorbed, they stood for hours contemplating every message and image presented. So begins the cultural turning point that is the basis of Amazon Town TV, a rich analysis of Gurupá in the decades during and following the spread of television.
Pace worked with sociologist Brian Hinote to explore the sociocultural implications of television’s introduction in this community long isolated by geographic and communication barriers. They explore how viewers change their daily routines to watch the medium; how viewers accept, miss, ignore, negotiate, and resist media messages; and how television’s influence works within the local cultural context to modify social identities, consumption patterns, and worldviews.

An unholy union of a comic book icon and pure Lovecraftian horror is unleashed by writers MIKE MIGNOLA, acclaimed creator of Hellboy, RICHARD PACE (Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword) and artist TROY NIXEY (HARLEY QUINN) in this terrifying reimagining of the greatest heroes and villains in the Batman mythos. It’s Gotham City, 1928. Twenty years have passed since a madman slew the parents of young Bruce Wayne, heir to one of the city’s oldest fortunes. Twenty years since he fled the carnage of Gotham. But now Bruce Wayne has returned—and hell has followed. A terrible thing from beyond space and time has awakened. The Lurker on the Threshold has called its faithful servants—immortal sorcerers, reptile men, beings of eldritch cold and fungal horror—to feed our world into its gaping maw. If the Batman hopes to end the horror, how terrible must Bruce Wayne become? Collects BATMAN: THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM #1-3!

Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham

Mignola,Mike

Science Fiction & Fantasy

DC Comics

The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupa Revisited

In his dissertation research on the Amazon region in the 1980s-1990s, Pace (anthropology, Middle Tennessee State U.) revisited the small rural town that served as the site of Charles Wagley's classic study of indigenous camponTs (small-farm) life: Amazon Town: A Study of Man in the Tropics (1976). Pace records local adaptations to poverty, ideological conflicts, and liberation theology. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Business & Money

Economics

Lynne Rienner Pub

Massive changes have engulfed the Brazilian Amazon region in the forty years since Charles Wagley's landmark study, Amazon Town, was first published. In his engaging restudy, Richard Pace explores today's "Amazon Town" (Gurupa), where development efforts have left little untouched, little familiar. Focusing on the actions of the community as it faces new opportunities and recurring adversity, Pace examines the social and cultural history of Gurupa - including such factors as regional underdevelopment, environmental degradation, and social conflict - as well as the more recent effects of political mobilization and liberation theology on human rights awareness and social justice. He richly illustrates the political and economic forces - national and international - that affect Gurupa, and explores the motivations and means of those searching for alternatives to current patterns of development.

History

A Lovecraftian tale of horror set in Gotham City co-written by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.\nIn this tale of horror in Gotham City co-written by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, Bruce Wayne unintentionally brings a dark evil back from a rescue mission.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Manga

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Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham

The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupa Revisited

The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupa Revisited

Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham