Central american contemporary cinema: Historical memory, conditions of production and execution

Abstract

This paper gathers up a series of information and data sets compiled in the doctoral thesis entitled: Cinéma centraméricain contemporain (1970-2014): la construction d'un cinéma régional: Mémoires socio-historiques et culturelles, with the data being updated to 2017. The study attempts to approach Central American cinematography as a whole, from a transversal and regional angle, in order to determine what relations exist between the different national cinemas of the countries that make up Central America and their links to the historical memory of the region, taking into account the links between the subjects addressed in the films, the conditions during the filmmaking and the regional production.