Imaginaries of Abya Yala
Indigenous filmmaking in Latin America from a multimodal semiotic perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18949119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P S Baker (0000-0002-4286-3846, University of Stirling, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 377-397 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-2222 • E-ISSN: 1744-2230 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17442222.2022.2149230 |
| OpenAlex | W4313649006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article argues that multimodal semiotics can provide an analytical lens to critically understand recent film and media production by Indigenous people and communities in southern and central Abya Yala (or Latin America). It suggests precise ways to analyse this film and media production as the emergence of alternative public or ‘counter-public’ spaces that allow for the expression of ‘emergent’ forms of Indigeneity that contest dominant modes of representation. The argument focuses not only on these Indigenous texts’ semiotic contents (their design and production) but also on their discursive features, distribution and reception. The article ends up revealing that a multimodal semiotic approach provides a very useful toolbox to make sense of the complex and multi-layered nature of the various emerging cinemas of Abya Yala. The article argues that this approach allows for a better appreciation of the diversity of Indigenous film production, while also facilitating a critical engagement with the issues this media production raises in terms of authorship and modes of representation, among other issues
Aesthetics · Art · CONTEST · Epistemology · Filmmaking · Indigenous · Media studies · Movie theater · Multimodality · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Sociology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Indigenous Cultures and History · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America
From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans
Literacy in the New Media Age
From Movements to Parties in Latin America
Multiculturalism in Latin America
Indigenous Media from U-Matic to YouTube
Indigenous Media Cultures in Abya Yala
Indianizing Film
The Exhaustion of Difference
Reservation Reelism
The New Media Nation
Imagined communities
Rethinking the Public Sphere
Indigenous Media in Mexico
Neoliberal Multiculturalism
Embedded Aesthetics
Indigenous Media
Packaging Indigenous Media
Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |