Televis？o e política: o mito Tancredo Neves entre a morte, o legado e a reden？？o

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 repórter, 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.