De Gaulle en escena: el verbo y la gesta
- Autores: Sylvie Lindeperg
- Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 46, 2004 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cine y carisma : la deificación del poder político), págs. 102-117
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- De Gaulle in the Spotlight.The Word and the Deed
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Resumen
Throughout the Second World War, General de Gaulle used the radio to lay the foundations of legitimacy for his media image, thus contributing to the consolidation of his destiny and historical stature. Upon his return to France, he was not, however, to concede the same importance to film imagery.
Thus, the Liberation was marked by a paucity of quality cinematographic records and newsreels. This paper examines De Gaulle’s postwar policy with regard to filmed journalism, and the portrayal of the General in newsreels reporting on the Liberation. A detailed analysis of reports on Charles de Gaulle’s visits to the provinces shows a sharp contrast between the great care and ritualism with which the leader’s followers organized his visits, based on a model traditionally used for royalty, and the relatively poor quality of the corresponding newsreels. To conclude, the author presents a number of hypotheses regarding the “essential” role of television in the period following the General’s return in 1958, in an attempt to understand the conditions surrounding a direct switch from “radiocracy” to abstract “telecracy” in Gaullist policy
