Abstract

ARIAS OSORIO, Maria Fernanda. Films that Pervert or Lift: Practices and Discourses of Film Censorship. The Case of Cali, Colombia, 1945-1955. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.18, pp.272-312. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v9n18.59111.

Through various documentary sources, especially newspaper Relator, this article considers film-related practices and discourses between 1945 and 1955 in Cali (Colombia). The constitution and transformation of the censorship committees, the types of issues associated to them, and their relations to the reconfiguration of age groups, social classes and genders are analyzed here. The undermining of the practical and symbolic power of traditional institutions and the emergence of new ones created struggles among different social groups that, in symbolic and factual ways, tried to readjust to the new political and cultural circumstances. As a modern and democratic means of expression, which rearranged the ways of citizens live and depict themselves in public arenas, cinema symbolized both the desires and fears that these transformations created in the ways different social groups looked at themselves and others. In this context, censorship was a particular arena involving the tensions in the ways a peripheral city tried to face the modernity that cinema represented.

Keywords : cinema; censorship; culture; Cali; Colombia.

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