Publication: Las brigadas internacionales y su proyección propagandística a través de dos periódicos estadounidenses y dos británicos (1936-1939)
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2021-03-08
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El impacto militar y diplomático de la participación de las Brigadas Internacionales (BI) en la guerra de España ha quedado reflejado en una ingente creación literaria y periodística. Su dimensión propagandística, sin embargo, se ha trabajado menos. La proyección propagandística de las mismas en la prensa estadounidense y británica es el objetivo de esta investigación. Para los Estados Unidos ha sido escogido The New York Times, un diario que disfrutaba de dos corresponsales con ideologías diferentes y que ofrecían una panorámica diferenciada del quehacer de las BI. Por otro lado, el semanario New Masses, desde su ideología marxista favoreciendo claramente a las BI con textos propagandísticos y fotos que contribuyeron a mitificar su imagen. Por parte británica, la elección del londinense The Times obedece a su fidelidad a la postura oficial británica de no intervención en la guerra de España y a su influencia en los sectores más influyentes de la sociedad británica. La del The Daily Worker, por su condición de órgano del Partido Comunista británico, que apoyaba abiertamente a las BI...
The propaganda impact of the International Brigades that participated in the Spanish Civil War, is a reality that has been reproduced in a huge literary and journalistic creation. The aim of this research is to capture this propaganda impact in both, the US and the British press. In order to conduct our analysis for the former we have chosen The New York Times, a newspaper that enjoyed the collaboration of two correspondents with different ideologies who offered a complete but differentiated overview of the of the IB, inevitably shaping the view the US public opinion had of the Brigades. We also worked on New Masses, a Marxist weekly clearly favoring the IB image through its propaganda texts and a graphic support material. For the latter The Times was a clear option due to its fidelity to the official British position of non-intervention in the Spanish war. In contrast we also worked with The Daily Worker, pro-communist an accordingly a staunch supporter of the BI...
The propaganda impact of the International Brigades that participated in the Spanish Civil War, is a reality that has been reproduced in a huge literary and journalistic creation. The aim of this research is to capture this propaganda impact in both, the US and the British press. In order to conduct our analysis for the former we have chosen The New York Times, a newspaper that enjoyed the collaboration of two correspondents with different ideologies who offered a complete but differentiated overview of the of the IB, inevitably shaping the view the US public opinion had of the Brigades. We also worked on New Masses, a Marxist weekly clearly favoring the IB image through its propaganda texts and a graphic support material. For the latter The Times was a clear option due to its fidelity to the official British position of non-intervention in the Spanish war. In contrast we also worked with The Daily Worker, pro-communist an accordingly a staunch supporter of the BI...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, leída el 05-10-2020