“IMAGENS PROJETADAS DO IMPÉRIO” O CINEMA HOLLYWOODIANO E A CONSTRUÇÃO DE UMA IDENTIDADE AMERICANA PARA A POLÍTICA DE BOA VIZINHANÇA

Abstract

This work aims to understand the political instrumentalization of the movie industry in the USA during the 19 0’s and 1940’s of the “good neighborliness’ policy” implemented with Latin America. We focus the coming of American agents to Brazil whit the mission of constructing, through the cinema, an unique identity in which both Latin American and American could recognize themselves in advocacy of the war that was announced.