Rielle Navitski

Email: rielle.navitski at berkeley dot edu

Research interests: Broadly interested in Latin American cinema with a focus on the silent and early sound era, Rielle Navitski has written articles on tango singer Carlos Gardel’s international cinema stardom and on contemporary crime film in Argentina, a project which engaged her penchant for investigating the political meanings and global circulation of crime genres.  Her dissertation project “Sensationalism, Cinema and the Popular Press in Mexico and Brazil, 1905-1930″ examines narratives of crime and adventure in serialized popular literature, sensationalistic news reporting, and early film productions in the two nations, suggesting that the spectacles of violence and technology staged in these emerging mass media were pivotal in constructing local understandings of industrial modernity at the turn of the twentieth century.