Crise de 1929, New Deal e o cinema : legitimação política nas produções Wild Boys of the Road (1933) e Confidence (1933)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the use of cinema as a resource that produces legitimacy in favor of the New Deal through the audiovisual productions Wild Boys of The Road (1933) and Confidence (1933). Such films were examined together with official speeches by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt given in 1933, such as his inaugural speech and the first three “fireside chats” broadcast on the radio. Based on the discussion made through the bibliography regarding the period of the Great Depression, the characteristics and relationships between the media, film studios and Franklin D. Roosevelt, which guided the analyzes carried out based on the selected films, a complementarity and reinforcement is identified between fictional audiovisual narratives and FDR's speeches in order to generate a consensus in American society on the need for the New Deal and federal programs as a legitimate solution to the 1929 Crisis.