Leisure in the Multi-Dimensional World of Existence: Limits and possibilities of women's social status in contemporary Latin American films

The cinema is a leisure experience appreciated by people of different ages and social classes in many parts of the world. Like other forms of art and entertainment, films depict social relations and subjectivities through images. Moreover, the camera lens teaches the spectator how to look at what is being filmed and that these ways of looking reappear in everyday social interactions. Considering that cinematographic narratives (re)produce senses and meanings about women, this presentation pretends answer the following questions: How are women and gender relations represented in contemporary Latin American films? Which are the visual and narrative strategies by which women gain visibility through the plot? How are the cultural contexts, with their tensions and conflicts, made present? What closes and opens the horizons of social imaginaries about women in Latin American films? The objective of this presentation is to analyze the representations of women in Latin American contemporary cinema according to the "sociology of absences" and the "sociology of emergences" systematized by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. To discuss the Leisure in the Multi-Dimensional World of Existence in the context of sociology of leisure, the challenge of this presentation is to understand limits and possibilities of women's social status in contemporary Latin American films.