%0 Journal Article %T Televis£¿o e pol¨ªtica: o mito Tancredo Neves entre a morte, o legado e a reden£¿£¿o %A Palha %A C¨¢ssia Rita Louro %J Revista Brasileira de Hist¨®ria %D 2011 %I Associa??o Nacional de Hist¨®ria - ANPUH %R 10.1590/S0102-01882011000200012 %X this paper discusses the cultural production of brazilian television focusing in particular on globo network, a television network, and one of its programs called globo rep¨®rter, a weekly documentary show, concentrating on the rise of so-called 'political opening,' adopting as a guide the diffusion of the political image of tancredo de almeida neves, as well as symbolic construction processes which involved his mythification. against a context of 'political transformation,' this research focuses on the centrality of electronic media as a link between civil and political society and as a crucial 'place of memory' of national culture, helping to make sense of political images and a certain conception of history. %K politics %K myth %K brazilian television. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-01882011000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en