27 articles in this issue
Diana Kuéllar
The following article discusses the existence of an Colombian documentary film which works from the aesthetics of dissent and proposes to art as a political space, understood the concept of politician as the intersection between power and resistance where... see more
Salvador Velazco
This article analyzes Francesco Taboada’s 13 pueblos en defensa del agua, el aire y la tierra documentary (2008) from the perspective of the “coloniality of power.” This concept, in accordance with Walter Mignolo, refers to the subordination of the knowle... see more
Valeria de los Ríos
The documentary Tierra en movimiento (2014) is an audiovisual essay realized in collaboration with the Chilean poet German Carrasco. In it the counterpoint of sounds, texts and a narrative voice-over (in other words, its intermedial condition), allows to ... see more
Vladimir Silva Oyaneder
The text raises a critical interpretation about the representation of the body in the documentary Noticias (2009) of the Chilean directors Bettina Perut and Ivan Ossnovikof. To this end, it is emphasize on the capacity of the concept of a body without org... see more
Macarena García-González
Children’s literature and media presents a privileged field to explore the reproduction of social discourses and consensus. In this article, we approach four works recommended by critics and mediators: the picturebooks La composición, Camino a casa and Un... see more
Nelida Jeanette Sánchez Ramos
The present article examines three works by Roberto Bolaño, who put the ballistic Effigies through narratology and cultural anthropology, who expose new uses for urban space by avoiding a symbolic imaginary controlled by the spatial functions of a disguis... see more
Jorge Zavaleta Balarezo
The article analyzes the first films of the Grupo Chaski and Claudia Llosa, two strong references in the Peruvian cinema of the last thirty years. Through the critique of the ideas and characteristics of these movies, the essay tries to build a image of P... see more
Roberto Ponce Cordero
Como era gostoso o meu francés is a 1971 Brazilian film. Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, it adapts chronicles by old explorers from the 16th century who were imprisoned by native peoples of what is now Brazil. Thus, it deals with topics such as can... see more
Mayté Murillo
The article reflect on the construction of the imaginary of violence in the contemporary Mexican cinema, and how the social imaginaries are connected with the filmic imaginaries. Edgar Morin's suggestion about the imaginary is crucial for this reflection,... see more
Aleksandra Jablonska
The article analyzes the extent to which recent mexican cinema, both fiction and documentary, have been transforming their discourse on ethnic identities in recent years. Based on a interdisciplinary methodology that articulates the categories of cinemato... see more
Armando Escobar
The relationship between Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and the cinema is extensive and. When we analyze one of the many adaptations of his work, we have to consider that it is a relationship of double influence, since our author has also take from t... see more
Hugo Salcedo Larios
The neat work of Julio Cortázar also included little known exercise dramatic theirs which constitutes a repertoire of several plays of his own, as well as some stories of best broadcasting, and whose thematic axis is fed myths Greek or Mesoamerican, some ... see more
Nicolás Suárez
In 1923, after producing the adaptation of his brother Josué’s best-selling novel La vendedora de Harrods (1919), Alfredo Quesada made his directorial debut with the film Martín Fierro. It was based on the poem by José Hernández (1872 and 1879), which had... see more
Julio Ariza
This article analyzes the mechanisms of political resistance deployed by cinematographic resources in two Argentine films: Invasión (1969), directed by Hugo Santiago, with screenplay by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Moebius (1996) directe... see more
Paz Escobar
This paper proposes a work of interpretation, from a textual and contextual analysis, of ten Argentinian films in which the Patagonian territory is re-presented: : La película del rey (C. Sorín, 1986); Gerónima (R. Tosso, 1986); Guerreros y cautivas (E. C... see more
María Gabriela Aimaretti
In the context of a more extensive research that reveals, describes and analyses the audiovisual production practices in La Paz, Bolivia, between 1978 and 1989, the present work focuses on the chronicle of the editorial project Imagen: a film magazine pub... see more
Ignacio Dionisio Arellano-Torres
This article analyzes the affective connotations of the transatlantic dialog proposed by Vientos de agua, a Spanish-Argentinean TV show. It is it´s project to establish a community for all the victims of structures of domination, may them be political or ... see more
María Isabel Ledezma G.
This paper develops the “kaleidoscope perspective” notion over two musical videos from the Canadian rock band Arcade Fire titled Afterlife and Porno: from the Reflektor Tapes. These audiovisual works show three important topics: the Orfeo and Euridice myt... see more
Estefanía Luján Di Meglio
This article studies a novel written in the argentinean posdictatorship, in French, La casa de los conejos (2007) by Laura Alcoba. The main concept of the paper is the mother and second tongue and its multiples links with the history –the history of state... see more
Rodrigo Veloso
This is a study of the work A cidade sitiada by Clarice Lispector, in dialogue with antropology (rites of passage), the second alchemy Jungian psychology in which it is intended to analyze the character in its individuation process, that means of self-kno... see more
Patricia Espinosa
This article presents evidence of both the ways in which memory is constructed and the crisis of representation in the novel El paso de los gansos (1975) by Fernando Alegría (1918-2005). This volume gives prominence to Cristian Montealegre, a photographer... see more
Araceli Abras Daneri
The Julio Cortazar`s literary corpus can be explained from the origin of his narrative in a context whose main feature it is the syncretic nature that it is grounded in the different origins and cultural influences that characterize the American cultural ... see more
Guillermo J. Fajardo Sotelo
The author analyzes the late work of Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes to think about the Mexican political system and its transformations. Also, the author uses the figure of Pedro Paramo as an example of total sovereignty in comparison with the state ... see more
Oscar Martin Aguierrez
The notion of Archive is central to know how the colonial logic marks the ways of appropriating America. The Archive is the beginning and the mandate (Derrida, 1997). It organizes, orders and institutes what the gods and men command. It imposes a dynamic ... see more
Cristina Moyano Barahona
Resumen
Francisco García Mendoza
Alejandro Arteaga Martínez