Cinema, fascism and propaganda: a historic approximation to the Portuguese Estado Novo

The Portuguese dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar used the cinema like an efficient propaganda instrument to consolidate the Estado Novo regime in the thirties. The Propaganda National Department and other estructures for the public communication control, played a important role to persuade Portuguese society and divulge internationally a salazarism positive image. During the Spanish civil war, the Portuguese cinematographic propaganda intensified its campaign against communism and in favour of the Iberian fascism. Adapted from the source document.