New Empire into Old: Making Mexican Newsreels the Cold War Way

Abstract

To me it does not seem that we can meet the threat of Communism by stressing primarily anthropological and cultural approaches to American Studies. The study of American culture has traditionally been cut off from the study of foreign relations. In much recent theory the problem of representation is deemed to be central, yet rarely is it put in its full political context, a context that is primarily imperial. Instead we have on the one hand an isolated cultural sphere believed to be freely and unconditionally available to weightless theoretical speculation and investigation, and, on the other, a debased political sphere, where the real struggle between interests is supposed to occur. To the professional student of culture—the humanist, the critic, the scholar—only one sphere is relevant, and, more to the point, it is accepted that the two spheres are separated, whereas the two are not only connected but ultimately the same.

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