This dissertation aims to analyze how Carmen Miranda films, produced between 1940 and 1945 in the United States, contributed with the symbolic construction of a Latin American cultural identity by Americans , questioning the extent to which the cinematic narratives of Latin America accounted for a U.S. power strategy over Latin America articulated by the Good Neighbor Policy. The production of these films is connected to a stage of the Good Neighbor Policy of intense rapprochement with Latin America countries, marked by a cultural approach that intended to convince them of the U.S. leadership, as well as the superiority of the American way of life, along with all the products associated with it. The Twentieth Century- Fox movies Carmen Mir...