Relations between History and Memory in Latin American Audiovisuals

We are currently witnessing an accentuated proliferation of allusive images, films or television series that promoted as historical representations of the past. In other words, we could say that a kind of "public pedagogy" is being established concerning the past through audiovisual images. This sort of public pedagogy deployed by the audiovisual implies understanding the images not only as documents or sources the past but also as social discourses that propose different entries into the historical phenomenon that involve real struggles to "select" and establish visions and memories which, at certain moments in the present, become hegemonic. From this perspective, this semester's dossier brings together a series of national and international articles that address this debate in Latin America.