Hollywood: centro de producción y exhibición de sentidos legitimadores de la guerra contra el terrorismo

Abstract

With the end of World War II towards the end of 1950 and with a western Europe almost in ruins, both politically, economically, physically, and structurally, a new period of confrontation begins; known as the cold war. This war had two powerful opponents: the United States-capitalist and the now extinct USSR-socialist. It had a rather unique characteristic, it was not a war conflict, the fundamental objective for both sides was not to directly attack the enemy. This contest had a totally different objective than simple aggression, it was something truly ambitious: to control the world politically, economically, culturally, scientifically and socially. In Dantesque terms it was about controlling the course of the history of human civilization. During the Cold War, technology became a fundamental paradigm for achieving victory. Both opponents intended to advance technologically in diverse areas, such as: arms, space travel, communications, not in vain the internet was invented in the United States during this period (1960s) .However, this work aims to cover exclusively one of the main objectives that these two powers had: cultural and political control of the world. In this sense, it is worth highlighting the great cultural machinery that the United States deployed in order to reach the top of power across the globe