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Secretariado Nacional De Informação
The Secretariado Nacional de Informação, Cultura Popular e Turismo (National Information, Popular Culture and Tourism Secretariat), usually known as the Secretariado Nacional de Informação or SNI, was the public organization responsible for political propaganda, public information, communications, tourism and cultural activity during the Estado Novo regime in Portugal. It was based out of the , on Restauradores Square, in Lisbon. The SNI developed an important role in the area of fine arts, film, theater, dance, literature (including the introduction of literary prizes), folklore, publishing, etc. The organization was created in 1933, as the Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional (SPN; Secretariat of National Propaganda), adopting the SNI designation in 1945. In 1968, it became the Secretaria de Estado da Informação e Turismo (SEIT; State Secretariat of Information and Tourism). After April 25, 1974, with the Carnation Revolution, the SNI/SEIT's information and communications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgínia Vitorino
Virgínia de Sousa Vitorino (August 13, 1895 – December 21, 1967), better known as Virgínia Vitorino, was a Portuguese poet, playwright, and teacher. She received the Secretariado Nacional de Informação#Prémio Gil Vicente (1935–1962), Prémio Gil Vicente in 1938. Biography Virgínia Vitorino was born in 1895 in Alcobaça, Portugal, the daughter of Joaquim de Sousa Vitorino, a mail carrier, and Guilhermina Vila-Nova. She pursued Romance studies at the University of Lisbon (1911–2013), University of Lisbon and attended the school of the , where she studied piano and singing, and learned Italian language, Italian. She went on to teach Portuguese, French language, French, and Italian at the conservatory for around four decades, as well as teaching high school students. Vitorino was an early employee of the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, Emissora Nacional, the country's public broadcaster, where she directed various Radio drama, radio plays. On the radio, she used the ps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estado Novo (Portugal)
The ''Estado Novo'' (, ) was the Corporate statism, corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from the ''Ditadura Nacional'' ("National Dictatorship") formed after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état, ''coup d'état'' of 28 May 1926 against the unstable First Portuguese Republic, First Republic. Together, the ''Ditadura Nacional'' and the ''Estado Novo'' are recognised by historians as the Second Portuguese Republic (). The ''Estado Novo'', greatly inspired by conservative and autocratic ideologies, was developed by António de Oliveira Salazar, who was Prime Minister of Portugal, President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 until illness forced him out of office in 1968. Opposed to communism, socialism, syndicalism, anarchism, liberalism and anti-colonialism, the regime was conservative, corporatist, and nationalist in nature, defending Religion in Portugal, Portugal's traditional Catholicism. Its policy envisaged the perpetuation of Portugal as a pluricontinenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natércia Freire
Natércia Freire GOIH (28 October 1919 – 17 December 2004) was a Portuguese journalist, writer, poet and translator. Early life Natércia Ribeiro de Oliveira Freire was born in Benavente in the Santarém District of Portugal, the last of four daughters of João Ribeiro de Oliveira Freire and Maria Emília Freire. One of her sisters was the novelist, Maria da Graça Freire. Natércia studied music and also took a course to become a primary school teacher, becoming one in 1944. Career Encouraged to write by her husband, José Isidro dos Santos, Freire first published a collection of poems in 1935, called ''Castelos de sonho'' (Dream castles), at the age of 17. At that early age, she already showed a mastery of form and a musical sensibility and this had fully matured by the time ''Horizonte fechado'' (Closed horizon) was published, her fourth collection, in 1942. Further collections were to follow, marked by a "deep thematic coherence". Her work, with its supernatural themes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Propaganda In Portugal
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented. Propaganda can be found in a wide variety of different contexts. Beginning in the twentieth century, the English term ''propaganda'' became associated with a manipulative approach, but historically, propaganda had been a neutral descriptive term of any material that promotes certain opinions or ideologies. A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites. More recently, the digital age has given rise to new ways of disseminating propaganda, for example, in comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
