Historia Crítica

Hist. Crit. | eISSN 1900-6152 | ISSN 0121-1617

Dissemination, Censorship, and Control of Film Screenings. The City of Rosario (Argentina) During the Interwar Period

No. 48 (2012-09-01)
  • Diego P. Roldán
https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit48.2012.04

Abstract

This paper analyzes the distribution of cinema in the city of Rosario (Argentina) during the interwar period, focusing on the construction of cultural discourses, practices and relations. The paper explores representations, made by various agents, of cinema and the strategies of social and cultural discipline set regarding the films and the audience. Censorship and the disciplinary mechanisms are studied in light of their forms of production and reproduction in the urban social space, trying to (r)establish its sociological historicity.

Keywords: Argentina, culture, censorship, social control, cultural industry