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Film, Video Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II

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Title

  • Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II

Summary

  • Darlene J. Sadlier explores how the CIAA used film,radio, the press, and various educational and high-art activities to convince people in the United States of the importance of good neighbor relations with Latin America, while also persuading Latin Americans that the United States recognized and appreciated the importance of our southern neighbors. She examines the CIAA's working relationship with Hollywood's Motion Picture Society of the Americas; its network and radio productions in North and South America; its sponsoring of Walt Disney, Orson Welles, John Ford, Gregg Toland and many others who traveled between the United States and Latin America; and its close ties to the newly created Museum of Modern Art, which organized traveling art and photographic exhibits and produced hundreds of 16mm educational films for inter-American audiences; and its influence on the work of scores of artists, libraries, book publishers, and newspapers, as well as public schools, universities, and private organizations.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Hispanic Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-04-22.

Headings

  • -  Government, Law
  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Darlene J. Sadlier.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-04-22.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689089

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division. Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-22, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689089/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division, S. B. (2013) Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-22. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689089/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division. Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-22, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689089/>.