Espacios en conflicto: representaciones dramáticas y cinematográficas recientes del cruce fronterizo en la franja oeste entre México-EU

Abstract

This article examines a corpus of films and plays that have staged, as far as the 21st century goes, the asymmetries, dynamics and tensions of the crossing of the western border between Mexico and the US. To show the differences and similarities in how the transit between borders has been represented from one side and the other, the corpus includes plays and films written and produced in both countries. The works are approached from a cultural semiotic perspective that integrates concepts and categories of analysis from different disciplines (narratology, sociology, anthropology, film theory). Following the typology of violence proposed by the sociologist Johan Galtung, it is shown that both recent cinema and theater emphasize, each with its own code, the logic of the transition from cultural and structural violence to direct violence shown daily in the media.