Thesis Title: The Brazilian Television Mini-Series: Representing the Culture, Values and Identity of a Nation.
Year of completion: 2012
Supervisor: Sonia Livingstone
Email: niallpbrennan@gmail.com|
Niall has been lecturing in the Department of Communication at Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA, and continuing to publish his thesis research in article form. He has embarked on new research concerning the representation of Brazil in national and global media, as well as being involved in education consulting work.
Publications
Forthcoming, “Authority, Resistance and Representing National Values in the Brazilian Television Mini-Series”, in Media, Culture & Society
Brennan, N. (2014) “New Articulations of Flow and Contra-flow: The Landscape of Critical Television Studies in and between Portugal and Brazil” in Critical Studies in Television, 9(1)
Brennan, N. (2013) “Mauro Alencar, A Hollywood Brasileira: Panorama da Telenovela no Brasil” in Critical Studies in Television, 8(2)
Brennan, N. (2012) “Melodrama, Modernity and the Brazilian Television Mini-series” in Modern Drama, 55(4)
Brennan, N. (2010) “The Brazilian Television Mini-series: Changes to a Genre and Representations of Brazil” in Observatório (OBS*), 4(1)
Brennan, N., Iqani, M. and Lesage, F. (2009) “Student-Centred Student Teachers: On Maintaining Teaching Opportunities While Expanding Learning Support Offerings” in Networks (journal of the ADM-HEA), volume 7
Under review, “Redefining the Context of Hybridity: from Postcolonial Space to the Brazilian Nation”, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
In preparation, “Discourses of Expectation: Global Reporting on Brazil’s Preparations to Host the 2014 FIFA World Cup”, expected submission to Discourse Studies or Discourse and Society, Autumn 2014