Article 1
Bolivia:
Ideological construction in a film text
This paper analyses,
throughout one of the key films of the new Argentine cinema (Bolivia,
Caetano, 2002), the representations of some characteristic social conflicts
in contemporary Argentine society (labor crisis, discrimination, xenophobia,
etc.), and their relationship to the ideological level. Bolivia
provides a suitable material to study this type of relationships, first,
because the film belongs to a line of the new Argentine cinema that
establishes links with the sociopolitical context, and second because
the way the story is organized allows to make correspondences between
the ideological constructions and the cultural representation of certain
social issues.
Key Words. Cinema,
Ideology, xenophobia, labor crisis.