Donald Duck goes south: Walt Disney and the Inter-American relations

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dc.contributor.authorLénárt, Andrásen
dc.contributor.editorDavis, Amy M.en
dc.contributor.editorHaswell, Helenen
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-02T13:19:02Z
dc.date.available2024-07-02T13:19:02Z
dc.date.issued45475en
dc.description.abstractIn the 1930s, with the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed that the United States would soon need the sympathy and cooperation of Latin America. His Good Neighbor policy sought to improve relations between the countries of the Americas. Walt Disney was commissioned by Nelson D. Rockefeller, who was in charge of inter-American relations, to make a goodwill tour of Latin America in search of inspiration for films about the region. He and his group met with politicians and artists, researched local cultures, and personally experienced the region’s society, geography and wildlife. As a result of these experiences, Latin America became the setting for two Disney films in the 1940s, Saludos Amigos (Norman Ferguson, 1942) and The Three Caballeros (Norman Ferguson, 1944). The aim of this article is to describe the key role played by Walt Disney and his cartoon characters (especially Donald Duck) in the transformation of inter-American relations, especially from the aspect of culture.en
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dc.identifier.citationLénárt, A. (2024) 'Donald Duck goes South: Walt Disney and the Inter-American relations', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 27, pp. 24–36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.27.03en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.27.03en
dc.identifier.endpage36en
dc.identifier.issued27
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage24en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16056
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue27/HTML/ArticleLenart.html
dc.rights© 2024, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectWalt Disneyen
dc.subjectInter-American relationsen
dc.subjectLatin Americaen
dc.subjectSaludos Amigosen
dc.subjectThe Three Caballerosen
dc.titleDonald Duck goes south: Walt Disney and the Inter-American relationsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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