Análisis de contenido de la discapacidad auditiva en la película coda “Señales del Corazón”

Abstract

The movie CODA is a film that has revolutionized the film industry by narrating a story with hearing impaired actors, winning several awards. Hearing impairment is the loss in the hearing apparatus which makes it difficult to receive sounds and is part of the group of disabilities that have been catalogued by world health entities. The study relates the aforementioned film with the real situation of people belonging to this community in the city of Quito. The present research uses an exploratory approach, since it is a first immersion to the relationship between films and social problems such as disabilities in academic subjects. A mixed approach was used using qualitative tools such as observation, discourse analysis and was complemented with interviews with different people related to the disability axis such as: academics and professionals who contribute to the strengthening of the methodological structure. The information systematization matrices were created by the research team. The results of this article are related to the processes of exclusion within a social, political and cultural sphere, besides being implanted as a structural problem, which affects the economic and productive system, for this reason it is concluded that fiction is similar to the reality that these people live in order to adapt within society, the research aims to generate a process of visualization of this group to give a new sense to the linking of this social sector to the different processes that involve all citizenship.