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Flora, Cornelia Butler. "Roasting Donald Duck: Alternative Comics and Photonovels in Latin America." Journal of Popular Culture 18. (1984): 163–83. Added by: joachim (7/20/09, 1:30 AM) Last edited by: joachim (7/11/21, 10:59 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1984.1801_163.x BibTeX citation key: Flora1984a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Alternative Comics, Disney comics, Latin America, Photo comics, Randformen des Comics, Underground Comics, USA Creators: Flora Collection: Journal of Popular Culture |
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A corollary of dependency theory, which has enjoyed considerable popularity among social scientists in the last fifteen years, is the notion of cultural imperialism. Simply stated, the theory holds that countries with global economic dominance reinforce their hegemonic relationship with lesser developed countries through the manipulation of mass media such as television, radio, film and comic books. A number of radical critiques of Latin America mass media have appeared in response to this perceived relationship. In her article, Cornelia Butler Flora examines several Latin American comic books and photonovels which were created as alternatives to commercial controlled media forms. For example, in Chile during the short-lived presidency of Salvador Allende (1970–1973), the government publishing house Quimanto brought together artists and communications specialists to produce comic books which would serve as the socialist answer to Donald Duck and other publications that were seen as purveyors of capitalist values. Flora also draws on other examples of comic books and photonovels from Mexico, Ecuador and Peru.
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