The Only Defense is Excess: Translating and Surpassing Hollywood’s Conventions to Establish a Relevant Mexican Cinema
Paula Barreiro Posada
Mexico is one of the countries which has adapted American cinematographic genreswith success and productivity. This country has seen in Hollywood an effectivestructure for approaching the audience. With the purpose of approaching nationaland international audiences, Meximo has not only adopted some of Hollywoodcinematographic genres, but it has also combined them with Mexican genres such as“Cabaretera†in order to reflect its social context and national identity. The Melodramaand the Film Noir were two of the Hollywood genres which exercised a stronger influenceon the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Influence of these genres is specifically evidentin style and narrative of the film Aventurera (1949). This film shows the links betweenHollywood and Mexican cinema, displaying how some Hollywood conventions weretranslated and reformed in order to create its own Mexican Cinema. Most countriesintending to create their own cinema have to face Hollywood influence. This industryhas always been seen as a leading industry in technology, innovation, and economiccapacity, and as the Nemesis of local cinema. This case study on Aventurera showsthat Mexican cinema reached progress until exceeding conventions of cinematographicgenres taken from Hollywood, creating stories which went beyond the local interest
El comercio sexual en Chile: ambiguedades y contradicciones discursivas
Maria Cecilia Fernández Darraz
En este trabajo analizo, desde una perspectiva crÃtica, dos tipos de discursos enrelación con el comercio sexual en Chile. Por una parte, el emitido por autoridadespolÃticas y, por otra, el contenido en el texto de una Ordenanza Municipal de la comunade Las Condes en la región Metropolitana (Chile) que busca regular el ejercicio dedicha actividad.Empleando los modelos de Representación de Actores/as Sociales (van Leeuwen,1996 y Fairclough, 2003), concluyo que los discursos analizados incluyen con especialprominencia a los/as ciudadanos/as y residentes del sector y excluyen a las mujeres ya los/as clientes que participan directamente de la actividad. Asimismo, se evidenciauna postura ambigua donde coexisten la aceptación y el rechazo del comercio sexual,a la vez que las voces discursivas adhieren a la postura ideológica que sostiene quela prostitución es una actividad económica como cualquiera otra