Cine e Historia: Reflexiones sobre la imagen política en el cine contemporáneo

Abstract

Research Project 14.1 presents the film as cultural products that take elements from the symbolic universe that surrounds them, constituting themselves as constructors and reproducers of social imaginaries. In this way, the cinema is consequently constituted in a field of symbolic power in which the prevailing discourses of today’s society are constructed. The representations of authoritarianism and totalitarianism are analyzed from the analysis of a corpus of film images from film and fiction newscasts, which address the intersection of Cinema-History in relation to its production context. A laboratory is established for the reflection of social scientists, who today in the task of investigating the evolution of socio-historical processes have this invaluable resource that was provided to them by modern science and technology. There are multiple perspectives for analysis that are offered: the cinema as a historical document, a film version of the past, the film as a didactic resource, a significant system, and a place of memory and of the social imaginary, among others, all of them developed and applied to the different types of films.