ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses research about cinema and politics in Argentina in the 1980s. The implementation of film control became evident that there was an entente cordiale between the State and the Catholic faithful involved in the process. The chapter examines in detail how film censorship functioned in Argentina between 1968 and 1984 under the censorship law passed by the military regime of 1966-1973. Building on the solid work of the Argentine sociologist Fernando Ramirez Llorens, probing the dynamics of engagement between the 1930s and 1950s within a Church organization designed to advise the faithful about the moral and religious suitability of cinema. After a close analysis of the 5401 films rated by Catholic Action between 1954 and 1964 Fernando Ramirez Llorens observes that there were three areas of concern for the Catholic reviewers: the representation of sexuality; the portrayal of religious values, including marriage and family; and the questioning of the social and political, mainly Communism.
