Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Dellara, Sandra
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2000-2016
Idioma
spa
Extent
277 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
USA
1000002
South America (continent)
2000-2016
Abstract
The Oscar is one of the oldest film Awards and its Ceremony is iconic for Latin America, as it sets the standard for the predominant contents and forms in the region. The legislation of the United States about illegal immigration is an unsolved issue since the 1990s. Meanwhile, the political tension sharpens and Hollywood ensures that the foreigner, especially the Latino, acquires a leading role in its industry.
This work analyzes the representations of the Latin immigrant as the Close Otherness in the American and Latin American cinema framed in the Oscar Award between the year 2000 and 2016. For this qualitative thesis, we consider the Oscarwinning films in the category of “Best Picture” and the Latin American nominated films for the “Foreign Language Film”. With the support of descriptive and analytical grids, each film was analyzed to find the narrative function of the Close Otherness through four narrative models: Motor Model, Catalyst Model, Consequence or Justifier Model, and Ultimate End Model. We also identify the three most emblematic scenes for the Close Otherness in each film; for which we execute a socio-semiotic and discourse analysis that allows us to investigate about the representations of the Close Otherness and the political sense of the film.
The general objective of this thesis is: To analyze the representations of the Latin immigrant as the Close Otherness in the American cinema and the Close Otherness in the Latin American cinema in the international platform of The Oscars.
In this new political and mediatic scenario at the beginning of the millennium, we ask ourselves: What are the representations of the Close Otherness in the American and Latin American cinematography during 2000-2016? How are these representations built in each of the films? What similarities and differences are there between the representations of the Close Otherness in the American and Latin American cinema?
Our working hypothesis is that the United States uses cinema as political propaganda against Latin immigration and, at the same time, as a public policy that in some periods masks and in others unmasks. This process begins in the 1990s with a double arrow policy: On one hand, the negative effects that produce racist scenarios and social fragmentation. On the other hand, the invitation to different Latino personalities at The Oscars to make/look like an inclusion policy.
Although the thesis has a qualitative nature, we exceptionally triangulate with the quantitative method. We use the techniques of socio-semiotic analysis, discourse analysis and comparative analysis. For the theoretical framework we use the categories of: Cinema, Oscar, Latin American immigrant and Close Otherness. This work has the construction of a corpus of 27 films and 84 exemplary scenes, through which we operate the analysis.
This research confirms the representation of the Close Otherness in the American and Latin American cinema. In the US cinema, it describes transformations related to the socio-political/cultural context and turns, finally, towards the Latin migratory narration. Meanwhile, the representation of the Close Otherness in the Latin American cinema has some similarities and differences, but it is crossed by the local reality.
Lastly, this work identifies the validity of a narration focused on the Close Otherness in recent years, but based on racism.
This work analyzes the representations of the Latin immigrant as the Close Otherness in the American and Latin American cinema framed in the Oscar Award between the year 2000 and 2016. For this qualitative thesis, we consider the Oscarwinning films in the category of “Best Picture” and the Latin American nominated films for the “Foreign Language Film”. With the support of descriptive and analytical grids, each film was analyzed to find the narrative function of the Close Otherness through four narrative models: Motor Model, Catalyst Model, Consequence or Justifier Model, and Ultimate End Model. We also identify the three most emblematic scenes for the Close Otherness in each film; for which we execute a socio-semiotic and discourse analysis that allows us to investigate about the representations of the Close Otherness and the political sense of the film.
The general objective of this thesis is: To analyze the representations of the Latin immigrant as the Close Otherness in the American cinema and the Close Otherness in the Latin American cinema in the international platform of The Oscars.
In this new political and mediatic scenario at the beginning of the millennium, we ask ourselves: What are the representations of the Close Otherness in the American and Latin American cinematography during 2000-2016? How are these representations built in each of the films? What similarities and differences are there between the representations of the Close Otherness in the American and Latin American cinema?
Our working hypothesis is that the United States uses cinema as political propaganda against Latin immigration and, at the same time, as a public policy that in some periods masks and in others unmasks. This process begins in the 1990s with a double arrow policy: On one hand, the negative effects that produce racist scenarios and social fragmentation. On the other hand, the invitation to different Latino personalities at The Oscars to make/look like an inclusion policy.
Although the thesis has a qualitative nature, we exceptionally triangulate with the quantitative method. We use the techniques of socio-semiotic analysis, discourse analysis and comparative analysis. For the theoretical framework we use the categories of: Cinema, Oscar, Latin American immigrant and Close Otherness. This work has the construction of a corpus of 27 films and 84 exemplary scenes, through which we operate the analysis.
This research confirms the representation of the Close Otherness in the American and Latin American cinema. In the US cinema, it describes transformations related to the socio-political/cultural context and turns, finally, towards the Latin migratory narration. Meanwhile, the representation of the Close Otherness in the Latin American cinema has some similarities and differences, but it is crossed by the local reality.
Lastly, this work identifies the validity of a narration focused on the Close Otherness in recent years, but based on racism.
Título obtenido
Magister de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Comunicación y Cultura
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales