Análisis de narrativa sobre la violencia de género en la película “Noche de Fuego”

Abstract

This work exposes an analysis of narrative elements that represent gender violence in the 2021 film Noche de Fuego directed by Tatiana Huezo. These new forms of representation allow us to identify processes of domination and power structures through the discursive axes of audiovisual productions. that show issues related to women, drug trafficking and violence in the sociopolitical system. The article uses a qualitative methodology. This research approach allows for a detailed understanding of social phenomena such as violence against women in the film Night of Fire. The research line of the article is Communication, languages, and content structuring, and focuses on analyzing how various languages and communication methods affect the construction and transmission of content. Likewise, the research uses Teun A. van Dijk's proposal with the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis, which seeks to identify how language and discourse are used to exercise power, domination, inequality, legitimation, and reproduction. At the same time, the research relies on contemporary theories of communication and feminism, which help in the development and understanding of the study objective. The importance of the research is to determine the representations of women in their social, family, cultural, economic, and political spheres in rural areas of Mexico. Furthermore, these representations in a film like Noche de Fuego focus on themes such as power, domination, poverty, among other problems found in Latin America.