The City Evita Built. Cinematic Childhood and Peronism in Luis César Amadori’s Soñemos (1951)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20203003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luigi Patruno (0000-0001-6618-3274, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-84 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2019.1692800 |
| OpenAlex | W3031443559 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article examines the under-studied film productions known in Peronist Argentina as “docudramas”. Placing documentary elements within a fictional plot, docudramas marked a significant change in the state propaganda machine and were used as a new vehicle to influence social habits. I focus particularly on Soñemos [Let’s Dream], a short film directed in 1951 by Luis César Amadori to showcase urban reforms. Through an analysis of Amadori’s docudrama in regard to its representation of the Children’s City built by the Eva Perón Foundation, I discuss relationships between entertainment, the constitution of a political hegemony, and modernisation. With film techniques such as the dissolve, Soñemos depicts the Children’s City as an enterprise capable of delivering material happiness and amplifies the narrative of a fairy tale come true promised by Evita’s social service programmes. Ultimately, the docudrama affirms the central role played by the state in the definition of the “right to a home” – from supportive benefactor to constitutive replacement
Art · Art history · Entertainment · Literature · Modernization theory · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema History and Criticism · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Aesthetics · Photographic and Visual Arts
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |