Foreigner / stranger: subjects of disorder and discrimination. The case of Bolivia, by Israel Adrián Caetano

Abstract

Within the framework of a larger project on the texts of culture in a rhetorical key, we are interested in analyzing the language of the so-called “new Argentine cinema”, and within this movement, in this presentation, the film Bolivia by Israel Adrián Caetano (2001)
Through the film we will see the figurative possibility of his discourse regarding the conformation of "order" and "disorder" in the tissues of social relations, the rhetorics of discrimination with its logics of equivalence and difference, construction and deconstruction of identities, meanings hegemonic and antagonistic, forms of consideration of "otherness" according to parameters that respond to conceptions of race and / class.
The so-called “new Argentine cinema” is a trend that took place in the mid-1990s, within the framework of a country with economic and social problems, configured in close relation to that context. This is reflected in films that expressed evils that affect Argentine society in the expression of a community devastated by the political-institutional crisis, unemployment and the prevailing discrimination.