Hollywood e a contenção do 'mal

Propaganda e legitimação das ações de repressão ao comunismo na era McCarthy, 1947-1954

Bibliographic Data

ID5775036
AuthorsNanci Espinosa (corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-01-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/d.8.2015.tde-29072015-123633
OpenAlexW2484938814
LanguagePT
References cited11

In the early years after World War II the United States society plunged into an anti-communist campaign.Several political and cultural manifestations responded to the concerns brought about by the Cold War.The Hollywood cinema had its importance as a means of propaganda recognized and actively participated in this campaign.So, we analyzed five movies of Hollywood cinema, produced in the early years of the Cold War, which operated as anti-communist propaganda, Big Jim McLain, I Was a Communist forThe FBI, The Woman on Pier 13, My Son John e Red Planet Mars.We made a discussion about the messages expressed by these works, exposing his influences and constructions.The different representations of confrontation against communism in the movies indicated us an appropriate division of the discussions on three thematic axes: the representation of state, family and religion actions in the anti-communist fight.From these discussions we perceived the plurality of social anxieties of this era, which were eventually mobilized and, possibly, reinforced from the propaganda produced by the cinema.For this end, we examine how the movies worked with the social anxieties and ideological choices in their aesthetic creation, in the representation of the communist enemy.In this intent we perceived that simplistic and limited views could not explain the reasons and the results of anti-communist campaign waged by the Hollywood cinema.The relations between its constructions and the discussions of various social sectors in the period reveal the complexity of the process that led the United States to the scene of repression and suppression of rights in the early years of the Cold War, the McCarthyism

Art · Art history · Communism · Hollywood · Humanities · Ideology · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Brazilian cultural history and politics · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law