Sixto Pondal Ríos: Cinema and “Argentineness”

Abstract

The interest in studying the work of Sixto Pondal Ríos lives for their outstanding participation of Argentine films as writer during the 30s to 60s so that is an interesting area of emergency to compare the type of fictional narratives that spanned much twentieth-century Argentina and relations between film, culture and national identity. Moreover his scripts were and still are considered as expressions of the Argentine and the city’s essence in the first half of the twentieth century. Therefore the study of their conditions of production and recognition is an element of utmost importance to understand the relationship between cinema and identities and popular life styles. The article proposes to build a problematization of the links between the screenplays of Sixto Pondal Ríos and the ways in which they served to make the film a producer-player of “Argentineness”.