De Casablanca a Lo que el viento se llevó, una mirada al consumo de cine de Hollywood en Bogotá durante 1935 hasta 1946

Abstract

This paperwork aimed to retake the idea of cultural products consumption, specifically asking for Hollywood film demand, in Bogotá during the period between 1925 and 1946. According to this, the research questions how was the Hollywood film demand among Bogotans during the early decades of the twentieth century and, at the same time, it focuses on all commercial films produced in the United States. To show how that Hollywood film consumption was not passive, this paperwork focused on how two groups of people saw and understood this kind of productions, taking into account a typology established by Ricardo Arias, in which part of the population of Bogotá was divided into radical Catholic individuals and radical liberals of secular trend. What is proposed is to show that despite the differences between these two groups, the vision built from these films was not that different, as both groups disqualified the movies for being a degrading technology which was subordinated to the interests of an industry.