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El cine según las amas de casa mineras: Agenda subalterna, performance y comunicación política (Bolivia, 1971-1994)

Translated title of the contribution: Cinema according to mining housewives: subaltern agenda, performance, and political communication (Bolivia, 1971–1994)
  • Isabel Seguí* (Corresponding Author)
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Edinburgh

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Abstract

This article analyses the political motivations and communication strategy of the collectives of housewives organised within the Bolivian mining unions, with a focus on their cinematographic participation, during the last three decades of the 20th century. These women were dispossessed of the means of film production and the cultural and technological capital. However, they were fully aware of the power of the mass media and, in particular, of Hollywood cinema, to alienate the working class. Consequently, they acted in alliance with trusted filmmakers; using them as speakers to get their message across to distant audiences. Despite the different audiovisual mediations, the housewives represent themselves uniformly over the decades as fighters against economic, military and gender violence.

Este artículo analiza las motivaciones políticasy estrategia comunicativa de los colectivos de amas de casapertenecientes a sindicatos mineros bolivianos, con el focopuesto en sus participaciones cinematográficas, durante las tresúltimas décadas del siglo veinte. Estas mujeres —desposeídas delos medios de producción cinematográfica y del capital culturaly tecnológico, pero plenamente conscientes del poder de losmedios de comunicación y, en particular, del cine de Hollywood,para alienar a la clase trabajadora— actuaron en alianza concineastas confiables; usándolos como altavoces para conseguirque su mensaje llegara a públicos distantes. A pesar de lasdiferentes mediaciones audiovisuales, las amas de casa se auto-representan uniformemente, a lo largo de varias décadas, comocombatientes frente a la violencia económica, militar y de género.
Translated title of the contributionCinema according to mining housewives: subaltern agenda, performance, and political communication (Bolivia, 1971–1994)
Original languageSpanish
JournalEstudios del ISHIR
Volume10
Issue number28
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes

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  1. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • Bolivia
  • unionism
  • cinema
  • women
  • Ukamau

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