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Animation allows for the creation of mediatic spaces that strengthen prevailing ideologies of masculinity and femininity. Manhood seems to operate as a key point of reference in the creation of televised animation across Latin America, especially by elevating certain heroic cultural narratives. Through a review of 21 television series, produced between 2008 and 2018, this chapter examines the portrayals of femininity and masculinity in some of the most widely broadcast animated series from the region. As a norm, Latin American illustrators adhere to the tradition of depicting female figures as secondary characters, as leading characters with a certain degree of autonomy, or as subaltern, considerate, and supportive figures. By contrast, male figures are portrayed as strong, daring, independent, and primary characters, often destined to lead their families and communities, and save their weaker friends that are typically female characters.

La memoria hace referencia a un conjunto de funciones psíquicas que permiten la actualización de imágenes de hechos pasados o que se representan como pasados. A diferencia de los estudios históricos, los de la memoria resaltan las subjetividades, amplían la discusión más allá del recuerdo y el olvido, y desplazan el debate hacia quien tiene el derecho a narrar su historia y aquellos que en ella se encuentran. Las inquietudes en torno a la memoria y sus lugares también se hacen visibles en el inquieto horizonte artístico, en el que pasados recientes y distantes se articulan en registros sobre diversas formas de traumas. Este artículo propone una reflexión sobre las relaciones entre arte y memoria a partir de la producción de dos artistas brasileñas contemporáneas: Rosana Paulino (São Paulo, 1968) y Aline Motta (Niterói, 1974). El análisis de esa producción se fundamenta en la interdisciplinaridad de los estudios de la memoria y destaca cómo la creación artística ofrece una posibilidad de resignificación individual y colectiva. Asimismo, conceptúa memorias americoafricanas como aquellas que emergen no solo en la memoria individual de las artistas presentadas en este artículo, sino también en la de muchas otras mujeres que se identifican con Americoáfrica como un sistema etnogeográfico de referencia. Son memorias americoafricanas porque se han gestado en la resistencia y creatividad contra la opresión, la humillación y la deshumanización, y que se insurgen contra la historia única proponiendo una revisión de la historiografía del país y del arte producido a partir de esos lugares. Memory refers to a set of psychic functions that allow the updating of images of past events or events that are represented as past. Unlike historical studies, memory studies highlight subjectivities, expand the discussion beyond memory and oblivion, and shift the debate towards who has the right to narrate their history and those who are in it. The concerns about memory and its places also become visible in the restless artistic horizon, in which recent and distant pasts are articulated in registers about various forms of trauma. This paper proposes a reflection on the relationship between art and memory based on the production of two contemporary Brazilian artists: Rosana Paulino (São Paulo, 1968) and Aline Motta (Niterói, 1974). The analysis of this production is based on the interdisciplinary nature of memory studies and highlights how artistic creation offers a possibility of individual and collective resignification. Likewise, it conceptualizes African-American memories as those that emerge not only in the individual memory of the artists presented in this article, but also in that of many other women who identify with Africa-America, as a reference ethnogeographic system. They are African-American memories because they have been born in resistance and creativity against oppression, humiliation and dehumanization, and because they insurrect against the unique history, proposing a review of the historiography of the country and the art produced out of those places.

Este trabajo presenta los resultados de la investigación Imágenes de lo extraordinario: monstruos americanos del siglo XVI, proceso de creación artística desarrollado por los estudiantes del Semillero de Investigación en Artes Visuales (SINAV) del programa de Artes Visuales de la Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD) entre 2018 y 2019. Para analizar de manera crítica e histórica la construcción de identidades sobre lo latinoamericano, se tomó como marco de análisis la representación de lo monstruoso en los relatos y las imágenes construidas por los cronistas de Indias en el siglo XVI, los cuales marcaron procesos de marginalización cultural, construcción de subjetividades y dinámicas de poder, y presentaron al habitante americano como una otredad que estaba fuera de los límites de la cultura dominante occidental. Se presentan los postulados teóricos sobre lo monstruoso como marco para el análisis histórico y la creación de obra, con una metodología de trabajo colaborativo y en gran parte virtual. Posteriormente, se exponen algunos resultados de la investigación histórica que dan paso a detallar el proceso de creación de obra que culminó con la exposición de la instalación audiovisual Imágenes de lo extraordinario, así como con una amplia serie de ilustraciones contemporáneas sobre lo monstruoso y un producto digital en formato página web donde se presenta una cartografía de lo monstruoso en América Latina y se recogen las memorias de todo el proyecto. This work presents the results of the research Images of the Extraordinary: American Monsters of the 16th Century, artistic creation process developed by the students of the Research Seedbed in Visual Arts (SINAV, for its initials in Spanish) of the Visual Arts program of Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD) between 2018 and 2019. With the objective of analyzing, in a critical and historical way, the construction of identities on Latin American matters, the representation of the monstrous in the stories and images constructed by the chroniclers of the Indies in the 16th century was used as a framework of analysis. These chroniclers marked processes of cultural marginalization, construction of subjectivities and power dynamics, and presented the American inhabitant as an otherness that was outside the limits of the dominant Western culture. The theoretical postulates about the monstrous are presented as a framework for historical analysis and the creation of works, with a collaborative and largely virtual working methodology. Some results of the historical research are then presented, which gives way to detailing the process of creating work that culminated in the exhibition of the audiovisual installation Images of the Extraordinary, as well as a wide range of contemporary illustrations on the monstrous and a digital product in web page format where a cartography of the monstrous in Latin America is presented and the memories of the whole project are collected.

Este artículo analiza las implicaciones ontológicas y el carácter performativo del documental Shekuita o el mal trueno, lanzado en 2017 por un colectivo de producción audio- visual indígena wiwa en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta en Colombia. El documental explora las causas, dudas y consecuencias de un triste incidente ocurrido tres años antes: la caída de un rayo sobre una edificación ceremonial de los wiwas, que causó la muerte a casi una docena de líderes. A partir del contraste entre las explicaciones científicas de la tragedia y las que han investigado las autoridades espirituales de la comunidad desde sus ontologías relacionales, y basándonos en un trabajo de campo cuasietnográfico durante el proceso de filmación, buscamos dar cuenta de un caso específico de descolonización de lo real y de los esfuerzos de una comunidad indígena por la libre expresión y la representación autónoma. Encontramos que este documental abre puertas de forma artística a mundos otros, contados en clave insumisa desde una indigenidad que nos interpela. Concluimos que los wiwas performan un realidad que no necesariamente es la que vivieron, sino una que les permite estratégicamente alcanzar más fácilmente la realidad que quieren recuperar. El artículo intenta contribuir a la visibilización de otras ontologías distintas de la naturalista, a mostrar las autocríticas de esta y a manifestar cómo el audiovisual es un espacio propicio para descolonizar lo real. This paper analyzes the ontological implications and the performative nature of the documentary Shekuita o el mal trueno, released in 2017 by a Wiwa indigenous audiovisual production group in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. The do-cumentary explores the causes, doubts and consequences of a sad incident that happened three years earlier: a lightning strike on a Wiwas ceremonial building, which killed nearly a dozen leaders. Based on the contrast between the scientific explanations of the tragedy and those that the spiritual authorities of the community have investigated according to their relational ontologies and based on a quasi-eth-nographic fieldwork during the filming process, we seek to account for a specific case of decolonization of reality and of the efforts of an indigenous community for free expression and autonomous representation. We find that this documentary opens doors to other worlds in an artistic way, told in an unsubmissive way by an indigenous community that challenges us. We conclude that the Wiwa perform a reality that is not necessarily the one they lived through, but one that strategically allows them to reach the reality they want to recover more easily. The paper at-tempts to contribute to the visibility of other ontologies other than the naturalistic one, to show self-criticism of it and to show how the audiovisual is a propitious space to decolonize reality.

During 2019, various situations once again showed the deep crisis in the country. Audiovisual production continued, albeit with figures that account for a declining industry. Four productions were released: a first was made by the state channel (TVe), a second by a local independent producer (Oduver Cubillán and BGcreativos), the third was produced by the private channel (RCTV) and broadcast by the subscription channel IVC Networks, and the fourth was also produced by RCTV. While the first two productions did not exceed the 35-episode figure, the third and fourth had 73 episodes. On March 7, there was the biggest blackout in the country’s history. For more than a week, 95% of the territory was paralyzed by a lack of electricity. The action was classified by the government as an electric sabotage. The darkness that covered the country also subsumed serial fiction.

Serial fiction released in Argentina in 2019 continues to fall. Only one telenovela had more than 200 chapters. To a lesser extent than the previous year, the supply of serialized fiction incorporated themes from the social agenda, especially feminist struggles and the visibility of sexual dissidence. The channels found in the co-produc- tion and in the production for platforms one of the ways in which fic- tion survives. Some of these programs are now on the open television screen. New fiction releases from Ibero-America are also falling.

The country’s political crisis led to the confrontation between the Peruvian Congress and President Martín Vizcarra on irreconcil- able limits. After a second denial of confidence, Vizcarra made use of his constitutional prerogatives and dissolved Congress at the end of September 2019. The majority of the mass media step in line with the different positions of the Executive or the opposition, giv- ing much more attention to the political situation, thus modifying the TV programing. In this scenario, the Enfoca group – owner of Latina station – has continued looking for potential buyers, but without success yet. The conglomerate – with interest in financial, health and productive sectors – does not feel that the investment made in acquiring all the station’s shares seven years ago yielded the expected results. Meanwhile, Willax – a small locally held station acquired by the Wong group in 2015 with promises of a large investment – has become a stronghold of opposition to the government of Vizcarra and the largest broadcaster of Korean fictions. In February 2020, they an- nounced that a commercial partnership had been signed with South Korean company CJ ENM, a production company of several Korean dramas and the award-winning film Parasite, but without indicating what this company could mean for audiovisual production in Peru.

The year 2019 in Colombia was characterized by the presence of a series of social and cultural phenomena of high impact on the population, such as the National Strike on November 21, when dif- ferent sectors expressed their disagreement with the country’s poli- cies and the reforms that were being proposed for the new year. This situation led to a leading presence of the news on the small screen and, at the same time, an interesting reflection of national identity, the needs of various Colombian social groups and the cul- tural matrices of the nation. In this hectic context and in accordance with a certain global climate of crisis in democratic and government systems, a highly interesting television phenomenon emerges: the highly successful reappearance of the programs that marked differ- ent generations of compatriots and that, as in the past, once again led families to discuss episodes and situations presented under the classical structure of melodrama.

A look at the screens of Uruguay’s open television in prime time will give the viewer a very reduced offer: after a television newscast that exceeds two hours long, there are only contest pro- grams, national or imported ones. It is possible that in the afternoon and at night the viewer finds a telenovela, almost always Turkish one. This is a very different panorama from the Uruguayan televi- sion history. Ibero-American fiction is in decline on open television, while its offer on VoD expands. In this chapter we will try to consider the various aspects of this landscape. Melodrama is on both options, open television and streaming, on a broad thematic spectrum, even in productions that are not usually classified as such. In the absence of national fiction in the period, at the end of the chapter we will study the melodrama in prison fiction, particularly in the case of El Marginal.

In 2019, the World Wide Web (www) celebrated its 30th anni- versary, However, the internet had not yet asserted itself as a right in the “network society” (Castells, 2009), and its balance points to the expansion of both opportunities and threats. Another fact that deserves to be highlighted in the year was the drop in the rating as a global phenomenon that challenges the television industry. It means change of habits and search for new business models. The integration of platforms and the generation of quality content appear as pillars of thetransformation of audiovisual worldwide. And the changes are manifested with a certain degree of diversity, according to the economic and cultural characteristics of each society, with disruptive processes.

Esta investigación propone una lectura detallada de una obra de arte de performance creada por el artista ecuatoriano Santiago Reyes, “(REM) Romantic Eyes Movement”. Al examinar la representación de los ojos de Reyes, esta reflexión considera hasta qué punto su pieza puede proveer un espacio de resistencia contra-visual y de curación generacional. Por ende, la obra de Santiago Reyes se interpreta bajo la enmarcación teórica de la “futuridad Latinx” y desde una perspectiva decolonial, mostrando cómo la performance transnacional latinoamericana puede proporcionar un vasto corpus de estudio que reflexiona sobre el alcance y la potencial de la expresión corporal performática.

Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses two major topics within current cultural, media, and television studies: the question of fictional genres and that of transnational circulation. While much research has been carried out on both TV formats and remakes in the English-speaking world, almost nothing has been published on the huge and dynamic Spanish-speaking sector. This book discusses and analyses series since 2000 from Spain (in both Spanish and Catalan), Mexico, Venezuela, and (to a lesser extent) the US, employing both empirical research on production and distribution and textual analysis of content. The three genres examined are horror, biographical series, and sports-themed dramas; the three examples of format remakes are of a period mystery (Spain, Mexico), a romantic comedy (Venezuela, US), and a historical epic (Catalonia, Spain). Paul Julian Smith is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was previously Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of twenty books and one hundred academic articles.

This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity’s histories of imperialism, colonialism, and the ideologies of Eurocentrism and neoliberalism. While Africa and the Global South dismantled the physical empire of colonialism after independence, the metaphysical empire of epistemic and academic colonialism is still intact and entrenched in the postcolonial university’s academic programmes like media and communication studies. To address these problems, Moyo argues for the development of a Southern theory that is not only premised on the decolonization imperative, but also informed by the cultures, geographies, and histories of the Global South. The author recasts media studies within a radical cultural and epistemic turn that locates future projects of theory building within a decolonial multiculturalism that is informed by trans-cultural and trans- epistemic dialogue between Southern and Northern epistemologies.

This book examines the process of transnationalization of Latin American television industries. Drawing upon six representative case studies spanning the subcontinent’s vast and diverse geo-political and cultural landscape, the book offers a unique exploration of the ongoing formation of interrelated cultural, technological, and political landscapes, from the mid-1980s to the present. The chapters analyse the international circulation of the genres and formats of entertainment television across the subcontinent to explore the main driving forces propelling the production and consumption of television contents in the region, and what we can learn about the cultural and social identities of Latin American audiences following the journey of genres, formats, and media personalities beyond their own national borders. Taking a contemporary interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational television industries, this book will be of significant interest to scholars and students of television and film studies, communication studies, Latin American studies, global media studies, and media and cultural industries.

Ce travail vise à montrer deux choses. La première, c’est de saisir toute l’importance du tournant postcolonial/afro-décolonial dans la construction d’une contre-épistémologie propre au sujet culturel colonisé africain. En d’autres termes, pour le sujet colonisé, cette contre-épistémologie sert à décoloniser les imaginaires, à partir d’un questionnement de la colonialité de l’épistémologie et du savoir donnés pour universels par l’occident. La deuxième chose, c’est que ̶ à quelques mois de la commémoration du centenaire de la naissance du prolixe et polygraphe auteur africain-colombien Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920-2004) ̶ cet article puisse le situer à sa juste place. Celle d’un sujet culturel colonisé africain des Amériques dont l’abondante production culturelle et la pensée, portées et révolutionnées par le concept de Muntu africain, participent de la décolonisation des imaginaires et de l’épistémologie

In 'Eros Ideologies' Laura E. Perez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of the interdependence of all life-forms, she writes of the decolonial as an ongoing project rooted in love as an ideology to frame respectful coexistence of social and cultural diversity. In readings of art that includes self-portraits by Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, and Yreina D. Cervantez, the drawings and paintings of Chilean American artist Liliana Wilson, and Favianna Rodriguez's screen-printed images, Perez identifies art as one of the most valuable laboratories for creating, imagining, and experiencing new forms of decolonial thought. Such art expresses what Perez calls eros ideologies: understandings of social and natural reality that foreground the centrality of respect and care of self and others as the basis for a more democratic and responsible present and future. Employing a range of writing styles and voices-from the poetic to the scholarly-Perez shows how art can point to more just and loving ways of being.

Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive look at their cultural dimensions. She critically explores blockbusters likeThe Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed to show how they are deeply entangled with American ideological positions and contemporary political, cultural and economic conflicts.As quintessential forms of visual material in the twenty-first century, mainstream games both mirror and spur larger societal fears, hopes and dreams, and even address complex struggles for recognition. This book examines both their elaborately constructed characters and densely layered worlds, whose social and environmental landscapes reflect ideas about gender, race, globalisation and urban life. In this emerging field of study, Murray provides novel theoretical approaches to discussing games and playable media as culture. Demonstrating that games are at the frontline of power relations, she reimagines how we see them - and more importantly how we understand them.

En esta conversación entre la cineasta documental Marta Rodríguez y Pedro Pablo Gómez, antes que hacer un recorrido cronológico por el trabajo la artista, se abordan problemas tranversales que están presentes a lo largo de su obra: el cine documental como modo de representación; la construcción de una metodología del cine documental latinoamericano; el carácter decolonial de la obra de Rodríguez y su compromiso indeclinable durante más de cuatro décadas de acompañar las luchas de campesinos, indígenas y afrodescendientes, entre otros. Y es en este abordaje donde Marta Rodríguez, haciendo uso de una memoria extraordinaria, puede tejer un relato en el que se destaca la ética de la artista y su compromiso indeclinable de denuncia de las injusticias sociales, utilizando las tecnologías del cine, no para hablar por las víctimas, sino para hacer escuchar sus voces y mantener vivas sus imágenes; unas imágenes que interpelan el discurso colonial mediante el cual se ha tejido nuestro relato de nación. Dans cette conversation entre la cinéaste documentaire Marta Rodríguez et Pedro Pablo Gómez, avant d'entreprendre une tournée chronologique de l'œuvre de l'artiste, nous traitons les problèmes transversaux présents tout au long de son travail : le cinéma documentaire comme mode de représentation ; la construction d'une méthodologie du documentaire latino-américain; la nature décoloniale de l'œuvre de Rodríguez et son engagement pendant plus de quatre décennies pour accompagner les luttes des paysans, des indigènes et des Afro-descendants, entre autres. Et c'est dans cette approche que Marta Rodríguez, avec une mémoire extraordinaire, peut tisser une histoire qui souligne l'éthique de l'artiste et son engagement indécelable à dénoncer les injustices sociales, en utilisant les technologies du cinéma –pour ne pas parler en lieu des victimes, mais pour faire entendre leur voix et garder leurs images vivantes. Des images qui contestent le discours colonial par lequel notre récit de nation a été tissé.

Este trabajo se propone comprender la incidencia de las relaciones de poder que ciertas representaciones temporales acerca de grupos indígenas pueden ejercer en nuestra comprensión pasada y actual. Diversas imágenes reprodujeron ideas de indígenas que, aunque estuvieran vivos, mostraban una cultura asimilada a un pasado de amplias dimensiones. Por lo tanto, para comprender el proceso de invisibilización de la diversidad indígena en la cultura nacional, es relevante considerar los mecanismos de montaje discursivo —visuales y textuales—, vinculados con las nociones temporales de indios viviendo en un supuesto tiempo remoto. Atendiendo a ello, se analizan los procesos de montaje, desde la producción de las fotografías hasta la edición y presentación de imágenes, tanto en la prensa como en postales, publicaciones científicas y de divulgación, para ver cómo a veces pequeños cambios de encuadre, contraste, retoque o selección pueden incidir en la construcción de diversas historias, en la comprensión y en los sentidos construidos y en pugna.

Este texto reflexiona sobre los discursos e imaginarios de género y sexualidad que se producen dentro del campo del videoarte realizado en Ecuador entre 1998 y 2013. Desde finales de los noventa, hay una presencia de videos que abordan temáticas de cuerpo, política, deseo, violencia, roles e identidad que posicionan nuevos temáticas, lugares de enunciación y sujetos través de las tecnologías de video. A través de un conjunto de obras emblemáticas, el texto analiza los discursos y las estrategias visuales con las cuales se construyen feminidades, masculinidades y diversidades sexuales en el contexto contemporáneo. Está producción plantea un relato alternativo frente a las tendencias dominantes dentro de la historia del arte ecuatoriano. Muestra las nuevas sensibilidades y sujetos que se afirman a través del uso de tecnologías de video. This paper reflects on the speeches and imaginary of gender and sexuality that occur within the field of video art made in Ecuador between 1998 and 2013. Since the late nineties, there is a presence of vid-eos that address issues of body politics, desire, vio-lence, roles and identity that position new themes, places and subjects of enunciation through video technologies. Through a set of emblematic works, the text analyzes the speeches and visual strategies which femininity, masculinity and sexual diversities are built in a contemporary context. This production presents an alternative story against the dominant trends in the history of Ecuadorian art. It shows the new sensibilities and subjects that are affirmed through the use of video technology.