Confissões de um espião nazista e o grande ditador : a influência cinematográfica antinazista dos Estados Unidos no Brasil durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945)

Abstract

This article aims to understand how the films Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and The Great Dictator (1940) were used by the United States as a propaganda tool to exert influence in Latin countries, especially in Brazil during the Second World War. We will work with the time frame of 1939-1942, in which the two countries became closer, especially with the Good Neighbor Policy and Brazil's entry into the War. To do this, we will use as documents the own pioneering anti-Nazi films produced in the United States, in addition to a specialized bibliography on the subject, by authors such as: Antonio Pedro Tota and Gerson Moura. And we will analyze the relationship between the two countries in the context of the Second World War, the use of cinema as propaganda and finally elements that characterize American anti-Nazism in both films.