The article approaches an actual Latin-American cinema tendency that has put in the center of the debate the discussion about the way Latin-American reality is been represented and, a supposed return to the realistic ways of representation. One of the most featured components, and the core of the debate, is the relation between documentary recording and staging. We propose that this antagonism is articulated in a large number of these films, as a borderline situation that allows a game of ruptures and dialogues that builds a new contact with what’s “real”, allowing us to read it as another way of relating with the social aspects. Thus, through a series of strategies that privileges a location in the genre frontiers, braking with the naturalized conventions
Doll, D. (2012). Escaping from the genders by entering in them. A current trend of the Latin American cinema. Comunicación Y Medios, (26), Pág. 51 – 59. https://doi.org/10.5354/rcm.v0i26.26103
