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Colgate University
Publication Date
Spring 2019
Abstract
This paper analyzes the nationalistic rhetoric used during the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. The dictatorship during this time heavily censored the press in order to maintain a favorable image, so, this paper will analyze three sources that supported the dictatorship and one that resisted the censorship instilled by the dictatorship. To achieve this analysis, I utilized various archives in Buenos Aires to find material from one newspaper and two magazines that supported the dictatorship: Clarín, Para Ti, and El Gráfico and articles from the newspaper, the Buenos Aires Herald, which continued to criticize the government despite intimidation. In this paper, I analyze the different nationalistic methods each press source utilized in order generate popular support both within Argentina and from countries abroad and contrast that nationalistic rhetoric with the critical writings of the Buenos Aires Herald.
Este ensayo analiza la retórica nacionalista usada durante el Mundial de 1978 en Argentina. La dictadura durante esta época censuró fuertemente la prensa para mantener una imagen favorable, por eso este ensayo analizará tres fuentes que apoyaron a la dictadura y una que resistió la censura instalada por el gobierno. Para lograr esto, utilicé una variedad de archivos en Buenos Aires para encontrar materiales de un diario y dos revistas que apoyaron a la dictadura: Clarín, Para Ti, and El Gráfico, y artículos del Buenos Aires Herald, que continuó criticando al gobierno a pesar de la intimidación. En este ensayo, analizo los diversos métodos nacionalistas utilizados para generar apoyo popular tanto dentro de Argentina como en otros países en el escenario internacional y contrasto esta retórica nacionalista con la escritura crítica del Buenos Aires Herald.
Disciplines
Journalism Studies | Latin American Languages and Societies | Latin American Studies | Politics and Social Change | Social Influence and Political Communication | Sports Studies
Recommended Citation
Mathias, Catherine, "Entre el júbilo y el horror: un análisis de la prensa nacionalista creada por la última dictadura de Argentina durante la Copa Mundial de 1978 y las micro resistencias en el Buenos Aires Herald / Between jubilation and horror: An Analysis of the Nationalistic Press Created by the Last Dictatorship in Argentina During the 1978 World Cup and the Micro Resistances in the Buenos Aires Herald" (2019). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 3126.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/3126
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Program Name
Argentina: Social Movements and Human Rights