PROLOGUE. Representations of Spain and Latin America in Audiovisual Productions
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The representations found in audiovisual productions from Spain and Latin America form the central theme of this special issue. Our aim is to identify some of the images that populate the imaginary universe in films, series, and other formats such as documentaries. But why focus on the representations we Spanish speakers make of ourselves? Why choose audiovisual media as the object of analysis for this purpose?
In people’s lived experience and in their relationships with others, only what is represented truly exists. It is through appearing before the gaze of others that recognition and difference are produced. However, in times of late modernity and disembedded relationships (Giddens, 1997), images in audiovisual products provide—though not exclusively—a space of appearance, and resources for forming judgment and opinion (Silverstone, 2010). This does not imply that what is excluded from representation vanishes from an individual’s subjectivity; on the contrary, it may remain latent and erupt, more or less violently, through artistic and communicative expressions.
Representation is the means through which human beings construct a shared world—constantly shifting, often contested, yet common. In audiovisual productions, different perceptions of reality find symbolic expression.
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