Social representations in the Salvadoran film discourse

Abstract

This article provides a first approximation to the study of narratives of Salvadorian fiction films released in movie theaters in the country; this with the purpose of identifying, through the analysis of film discourse, the social representations of Salvadoranism that can be shown through it, choosing for this the Salvadoran film Malacrianza. It seeks to describe the way in which the country is told in El Salvador's cinema and in what ways it is told: how from a cultural industry immersed in the creative economy, an imaginary of a nation can be built; and how a country is represented in its fiction cinema, since stories are constructed in fiction, unlike documentaries that reflect a vision of reality. This was done through a qualitative study, using matrices of ad hoc analysis for film discourses, integrating values ​​and elements of culture and identity to identify the senses and meanings in the narrative.