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Article: Evita/Eva Peron: between the global and the local
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Abstract. This article examines two recent films--Evita, directed by British filmmaker Alan Parker (1996), and Eva Peron, directed by Argentine Juan Carlos Desanzo (1997)--within a framework that takes into consideration the dialectical relationships between North/South and global/local. Under the guise of a phenomenon that encompasses elements of identity taken from national cultures, this global culture homogenizes its audience through highly ideologized versions of local histories that correspond to the dominant ideology of economic and cultural transnational capitalism. However, and at the same time, it is within these dialectical relationships that certain national cultural production ...