AZÚCAR, PERONISMO Y MELODRAMA EN EL FILME MANSEDUMBRE (1952)
Abstract
In 1952, one of the first films fully produced in the interior of Argentina, Mansedumbre (“Meekness”), was premiered in Tucumán. It was a transposition of Guillermo C. Rojas’ novel of the same name, published during the making of the film in 1951. However, this book was a new version of a previous one: Mansedumbre Herida (“Wounded Meekness”), from 1940. This paper focuses upon the representations of the sugarcane agro-industry in Tucumán and peronism as portrayed in the film, especially through a comparative analysis of the original version and the one that has been made during the Peronist government. We will sustain that the film reflects the imagery of a key agent of that industry: the small sugarcane producer. It also reveals a continuum of melodramatic discursive elements, held in the public sphere during the 1920’s and 1930’s in the symbolic realm of the first peronism.Downloads
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