The Ramparts We Watch: film documentary discourse in the field of Public Relations = The Ramparts We Watch: el discurso del cine documental en el campo de las Relaciones Públicas

The aim of this article is to analyze Louis de Rochemont’s The Ramparts We Watch as a public relations war effort from the past century. Arising from the informative and propagandistic strategy of late 1930s newsreels, the aforementioned documentary was made using very appropriate narrative techniqu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Girona, Ramon, Xifra, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/12225
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12225
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cinema documental
Documentary films
Rochemont, Louis de, 1899-1978
Noticiaris cinematogràfics
Newsreels
Cinematografia en la propaganda
Motion pictures in propaganda
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Sumario:The aim of this article is to analyze Louis de Rochemont’s The Ramparts We Watch as a public relations war effort from the past century. Arising from the informative and propagandistic strategy of late 1930s newsreels, the aforementioned documentary was made using very appropriate narrative techniques to award it the dimension of objectivity and truthfulness characteristic of public relations messages, without losing sight of its educational and persuasive function. From this standpoint, The Ramparts We Watch founded a genre and constituted one of the clearest precedents of public relations war films in America