Esas películas con mensaje
- Kracauer, Siegfried
- Pavés Borges, Gonzalo Moisés trad.
- Cruz, Juan José trad.
ISSN: 1697-459X
Year of publication: 2006
Issue: 4
Pages: 179-187
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Latente: Revista de Historia y Estética del Audiovisual
Abstract
«Those films with message». In this article the film theorist Siegfreid Kracauer give us an unexpected interpretation of the socalled «progressive» movies so frequently produced during the American postwar era. Far from reflect the social spread of liberal ideas in the United States of America, Kracauer argues, that films like Crossfire or The Best years of Our Lives have a strange inconsistency. For him all of these movies strike a note that sounds progressive, in a vaguely liberal way, but in a closer analysis they reveal the profound weakness of the very cause for which they try to enlist sympathy.