Between media and formats: different ways of knowing histories and characters of Latin America

Abstract

This issue’s videography demonstrates that in today’s networked society, information is beyond the pages of books and classrooms, being disseminated in several formats. Thus the teacher does not need to restrict himself to the sequences of the textbook contents, he can depart from an information and/or audiovisual resources to address the programmatic contents. The Cuban Revolution recorded by the cameras of Alberto Korda and the political trajectory of Ernesto Che Guevara, told in three films – The Motorcycle Diary, by Walter Sales, Che Part One: the Argentine and Che Part Two: Guerrilla, by Steven Soderbergh – are examples used in this section for the application of those resources.