The newsreel in Argentina. The state of the art

Authors

  • María Florencia Luchetti Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, C1114AAD Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v3n2.224

Keywords:

newsreel, documentary film, Argentina.

Abstract

This article analyses main contributions that social sciences provided to the study of the newsreel produced in Argentina. It takes into consideration the history of the genre, the conceptualizations proposed from semiotic and socio-historical perspectives, and defines its specificity by studying its similarities and differences in relation to documentary film and press. The article's contribution to the subject consists in systematising, analysing and discussing the concepts formulated to date, and what follows from that points to an original analytical perspective that constructs newsreel as an object of sociological study.

Author Biography

María Florencia Luchetti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, C1114AAD Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

María Florencia Luchetti is PhD in Social Sciences, Master in Communication and Culture and Graduate in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. She has researched the relationship between the film industry and the State, the newsreel and the symbolic construction related to the image of the "internal enemy" from 1955 to 1973 in Argentina. She is research assistant in Gino Germani Institute.

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Published

2016-07-18

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): Other films

Section

Special Section