“Êste é o Humberto” – Strategies of symbolic construction of the Realidade magazine on the profile of the first leader of the civil-military dictatorship

• Autor(a) principal: Filho, Jonas Migotto
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Oficina do Historiador
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/36660
• topic: Realidade magazine. Civil-military dictatorship. Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco.; Revista Realidade. Ditadura Civil-Militar. Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco.

Realidade was a magazine published by Abril between 1966 and 1976, during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. In some editions, the reporter Luiz Fernando Mercadante published a series of profiles of dictatorial government leaders, a conservative aspect in a mostly transgressive magazine, especially when especially when the customs plan was on the agenda. In this article, will be performed an analysis of the profile of Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, entitled “Êste é o Humberto”, published in issue number 3, June 1966. For this, the narrative is understood as the producer of symbolic forms in order to sustain relations of domination and, in the analysis, also taking into account the contextual and iconographic aspects.