Abstract
El cine como objeto cultural y estético logra establecer, como ninguna otra manifestación, profundas conexiones con los contextos y dinámicas sociales en los cuales se establece. El presente artículo pretende realizar una breve exploración a la forma como el cine en nuestro país ha ayudado a develar y construír el proceso de la modernidad, y acercarnos igualmente a las relaciones posibles que se pueden establecer entre los imaginarios culturales e identitarios comunitariamente construidos. Para ello, en la primera parte se propone precisar suscintamente qué se puede entender por modernidad y cómo ha sido su desarrollo en Colombia, para después describir cómo el cine se incorporó al proceso modernizador en un tiempo concreto: de 1900 a 1960.
As a cultural and aesthetic object, films manage to establish - like no other artistic expression, deep relations with the contexts and social dynamics where they are made. This paper aims at exploring, through briefly, the way in which the cinema in Columbia has contributed to the construction of Modernity; it also seeks to provide a closer look at the relations that can be established with the socially-built cultural imaginary. With these two purposes in mind, the first part of the paper is devoted to making a brief definition of modernity and showing how this trend has evolved in Colombia, while the second part intends to describe how film-making was incorporated into the moderniszation process during a particular period of time from 1900 to 1960.
As a cultural and aesthetic object, films manage to establish - like no other artistic expression, deep relations with the contexts and social dynamics where they are made. This paper aims at exploring, through briefly, the way in which the cinema in Columbia has contributed to the construction of Modernity; it also seeks to provide a closer look at the relations that can be established with the socially-built cultural imaginary. With these two purposes in mind, the first part of the paper is devoted to making a brief definition of modernity and showing how this trend has evolved in Colombia, while the second part intends to describe how film-making was incorporated into the moderniszation process during a particular period of time from 1900 to 1960.
Translated title of the contribution | Towards an archaeology of our image: cinema and modernity in Colombia 1900 to 1960 |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 39-53 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Signo y Pensamiento |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 48 |
Publication status | Published - 15 Apr 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |