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La fábrica de sueños
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Esta nueva edición rescata un texto en el que se narra la génesis de una de las industrias más revolucionarias de nuestro tiempo. Se trata de un glosa mordaz y muy divertida sobre el mundo del cine que no gustó a las autoridades soviéticas al considerar que no era lo suficientemente «socialista» y, sin duda alguna, tampoco debió de ser del agrado de los magnates capitalistas retratados sin ningún pudor en sus páginas: Adolph Zuckor, Samuel Goldwyn, Alfred Hugenberg, George Eastman y tantos otros. La vigencia de un texto escrito hace tanto tiempo quizás se explique porque Ehrenburg extrajo las conclusiones correctas: en la fábrica de sueños se imbrican tanto intereses económicos como estrategias políticas, aunque no hay que olvidar un tercer factor crucial: el cine y no la religión, tal y como apunta Ehrenburg, es el verdadero «opio de las masas». Estos factores obedecen a una biopolítica dirigida a movilizar, instrumentalizar y neutralizar las nuevas sociedades de masas. Es éste un análisis sin duda trasladable a toda la ingente industria visual y a la del ocio electrónico contemporáneo en general.

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Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Ehrenburg
Author · 16 books

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (Russian: Илья Григорьевич Эренбург) was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure. Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist - in particular, as a reporter in three wars (First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War). His articles on the Second World War have provoked intense controversies in West Germany, especially during the sixties. The novel The Thaw (Оттепель) gave its name to an entire era of Soviet cultural politics, namely, the liberalization after the death of Joseph Stalin. Ehrenburg's travel writing also had great resonance, as did to an arguably greater extent his autobiography People, Years, Life, which may be his best known and most discussed work. The Black Book, edited by him and Vassily Grossman, has special historical significance; detailing the genocide on Soviet citizens of Jewish ancestry, it is the first great documentary work on the Holocaust. In addition, Ehrenburg wrote a succession of works of poetry.

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