Cinema and intermediality in Latin America

what the cabaretera has to tell us about this process

Abstract

Media gain materiality from the perspective of an inter-mediatic crossing that guarantees them an “impurity” since their beginnings. In this article we intend to discuss how Latin American cinema has organized through media circuits. The national cinemas in Latin America have settled in social, political, and economic contexts that have gained meaning in the idea of intermedial culture. For this, we are inspired by the presence of the cabaretera in the Latin American musical cinema. From the arrival of sound in the cinema, this character points to the importance of thinking in the intermedia processes as cultural matrices that impact our cinematographic production.