La representación del anarquismo y de la protesta social en el cine mudo argentino a través de la prensa periódica (1909-1922)

Abstract

During the period of silent Argentine cinema, the anarchism mouvement did not have cinematographic production. Althought the anarchist social protest was approached by a series of national films of the time. The documentary films called "actualities" gave account of the "Semana Roja" of January of 1909 and of the funeral of the person in charge of the repression, the colonel Falcón, executed by an anarchist militant. Although the national cinematography reached between 1915 and 1916 an unusual development, it was in 1919 when some films started to deal with the anarchism and labor movement, now from the fiction. Indeed, between 1919 and 1922, anarchism was represented in several films from an adverse perspective in the heat of the great amount of labor conflicts that occurred during these years. Through a thorough search in newspapers and magazines of the time, this research retrieves the reviews and publicity of these sadly lost films. In this way, this article allows to know the arguments of these films and who made them. But mainly this article tries to glimpse how the representation of social conflict and anarchism was built in the initial stage of our cinema.