Pan-americanismo e cinema durante a política externa da boa vizinhança (1933-1945) no Brasil: os embaixadores Disney, Orson Welles e Carmen Miranda

The article seeks to relate some US-funded films during its Good Neighbor Policy (1933-1945) through the Office of the Coordinatorof Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA) with the concept of Pan-Americanism. The hypothesis listed by the research is that the use ofcinema as an instrument of soft power of the Good Neighbor Policy, in touting Pan-Americanism, the American Way of Life, andby seeking to contain the Nazi-fascist ideological influence in Latin America, helped to building a positive identity in U.S.-Brazilrelations. The research uses as methodological procedures the consultation of primary and secondary sources. Thus, the article isbased on renowned authors and on documentary research carried out in important centers and libraries in Brazil and in the USA.The text has, on account of the research, transcripts of interviews and speeches - few published by the academy - of personalities ofthat time, providing a unique correlation with the bibliographic production on the theme and an original argument. The conclusionreached by the article is that cinema was an essential soft power tool of the USA in Latin America and contributed to changing theview of Latin Americans about Americans.