Propaganda comunista en Latinoamérica. El impacto cultural del cine de los países socialistas en Argentina (1954?1970)

GALVÁN, MARÍA VALERIA Y ZOUREK, MICHAL

Iberoamericana Pragensia

Universidad de Carolina

Lugar: Praga; Año: 2017

0536-2520

The aim of this paper is to study a specific aspect of the Soviet foreign propaganda policy in Latin America: its cultural influence through the export of films. With the aid of oral history as well as contemporary press analysis, we argue that the role of Artkino (the only Argentinean imports firm that worked with the Soviet Union) in the translation of an idealized imaginary of Communism was crucial and had a particularly strong impact on middle-class citizens of the cultural and artistic regional center that Buenos Aires was in the fifties and sixties, and from where all Latin America, as the Soviets soon acknowledged, could be reached.