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DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-915-503-515-EN

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<meta name="DC.creator.personalName" content="Jerónimo Rivera-Betancur"/>
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<meta name="DC.Description" lang="en" content=“Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, RLCS, is a scientific journal edited at the University of La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife, Canary Islands) in the Laboratory of Information Technologies and New Analysis of Communication, LATINA according to its initials in Spanish, founded in 1987 by Dr. José Manuel de-Pablos-Coello, under the protection of special doctorate programmes for Latin American professors. The journal publishes under the main summary almost exclusively research papers written following the formula IMR&DC+B: introduction, methodology, results and discussion plus conclusion, with a updated bibliography: at least 70% of the bibliographic entries must be from the past 10 years and half of them from scientific journals in Spanish and English languages. Reviewers make a double blind peer examination. This is a collective and inter-university project, including many professors and researchers from almost all Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. The journal is the following databases: EBSCO (USA), DOAJ (Lund University, Sweden), Redalyc (Mexico), Dialnet (Spain); and is indexed by the CINDOC-CSIC in DICE, ISOC, RESH, Office of Latin American Education, OEI according to its initials in Spanish; Dulcinea, etc. In Spain the journal is a reference in the Directory of Index of Spanish Periodicals of Social and Communication Sciences, IN-RECS, of the University of Granada, UGR. RLCS occupies the first position in the cumulative index for the periods 2003-2007; 2004-2008 and the year 2008.”/>
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<meta name="DC.contributor.referee I" content="Reports: The article clearly establishes the research questions, which are answered throughout the text. It also presents the methodology used, which is consistent with the object of study.It develops a broad context to describe the Colombian film production in terms of themes, genres, tendencies and forms of storytelling. It makes an interesting outline of the presence of the conflict in Colombian cinema. Each analysed aspect is underpinned with a presentation and examples. This contributes to the relevance and topicality of the article and the research that originated it. The text presents the methodological approach used to develop the research, which is coherent with the theme under study and the characteristics of the selected sample. The article clearly presents the aspects to be analysed in the films (through a matrix of analysis) which, in turn, aim to answer the research questions. The writing style of the article is clear and fluid, and complies with the parameters set for the citation of sources. It uses a bibliography that is appropriate to the subject matter and also has the added value of including interviews to Colombian cinema screenwriters and directors (parts of which are included in the body of the article), some of whom are directly linked to the studied films. The conclusions include the aspects of the cinematic narrative announced in the introduction, in relation to the way the subject of the armed conflict is addressed in Colombian cinema. In short, this article deserves to be published since it synthesises an analysis that is serious, well documented, and has clear research criteria. Moreover, its results are rightly presented with fluid writing and examples that help understanding the analysis, and its methodological aspects can be used in future research on cinema in Latin America, or elsewhere, on different subjects. In other words, the article can contribute to the development of studies about the stories and realities presented by cinema.-- Monica Eliana Garcia-Gil, M.A. - Researcher and Professor of audiovisual media at the Faculty of Social Communication for Peace, Santo Tomás University, Bogotá, Colombia."/>
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<meta name="DC.contributor.referee II" content="Reports on the article:The article presents an original and exhaustive analysis of the representation in Colombian cinema of its armed conflict. First, the theoretical corpus outlines some of the concepts and authors which support the structuralist and narrative-based methodology. The corpus of study and the selection criteria are rigorously defined, which results in a focused and concrete sample of 14 films produced between 1964 and 2004.The analyses combined qualitative and quantitative methodologies (based on a matrix of criteria), which are used to reach conclusions on the portrayal of the actors involved in the conflict, on the spatiotemporal dimensions, and on the particularities of the narrative of the national cinema in relation to the armed conflict.Finally, everything is framed within the context of contemporary Colombian cinema, which is in a proliferating stage thanks to the new institutional and economic-conditions. -- Professor Ana Sedeño-Valdellós, Ph.D. - Faculty of Communication Sciences - University of Málaga (Spain)./>
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<meta name="DC.description.abstract" content="Abstract: Cinema is an act of representation and it is based on the construction of reality inspired by experience. In Colombia, cinema has not been the product of a structured industry, but rather the effort of some filmmakers who have found different ways of telling stories about topics that are part of the national experience. The armed conflict in Colombia, understood as the confrontation between government forces and organized outlawed groups, has prevailed for more than fifty years and has been present in art forms ever since. This research examines a sample of Colombian films to establish the different ways the subject of the armed conflict has been represented in Colombian cinema."/>
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<meta name="DC.keywords" content=" Keywords: Cinematography; Colombian cinema; armed conflict; representation; characters; actions; scenarios."/>
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<meta name="DC.TERMS.bibliographicCitation" content="Jerónimo León Rivera-Betancur, M.A.and Sandra Ruiz-Moreno, M.A. (2010): "Representations of the armed conflict in Colombian cinema", at Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 65, pages 503 to 515. La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands): La Laguna University, retrieved on ___th of ____ of 2_______, from
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DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-915-503-515-EN"/>