Memory and history of Central American migration in the first decades of the XXIst Century through its regional cinema.

Cinema, just like television, the press, and other means of communication, contributes in forging social and cultural imaginaries as clearly demonstrated by Bourdieu in Langage et pouvoir simbolique (2001) y Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent (2008). However, in depicting social phenomena, cinema not only constructs imaginaries but rather contributes to the creation of filmic archives and likewise allows to construct and reconstruct a part of history. This is our position, adopting the postulates of Ferro (1993 [1977]), Kracauer (1969, 1973), and Billard (1982). Through the prism of the philosophy of history, this article examines the question of to what extent contemporary Central American cinema can be analyzed as a form of construction and reconstruction of the memory and the history of Central American migration in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]