Os filmes do Capitão América como ferramenta do soft power estadunidense

Abstract

Captain America movies, the titled: Captain America- The First Avenger, Captain America- The Winter Soldier, Captain America- Civil War were released in 2011, 2014 and, 2016, respectively. This work aim to analyze each one separately building upon Joseph Nye’s Soft Power. Theory, which is specific to the field of International Relations, besides linking each movie to a specific historic period such as Nazism in the first, the Cold War in the second and the struggle between freedom and security in the latter. In addition, this word will show scenes in which US soft power is clear as well as the methods directors use to make suck power evident of not in each scene. To achieve this two complementary concepts from Douglas Kellner and Roberto Moll shall be used – they teach how to make a critical political analyses through framing, pictures, symbols, lightning, images and what is the them, as well as icons and indexes, and particularly the ideological discourses within the dialogues.