Space and Family: Analysis of A Family of So Many and We the Nobles

Abstract

Cinema is part of the cultural heritage and receptacle of memory, in addition to intervening in the identity process of a culture. Through its analysis you can learn about the society that produces it and its social structures. Cinematographic narrative is the way of telling a story, its connection with the space, provides additional information that leads the viewer through complex interpretations. In the Mexican cinema of the golden age, in the middle of the 20th century, a cinema was produced with identity intentions, influencing socially structuring concepts such as that of the family. By comparing with a production from the beginning of the 21st century, the transformation of that concept can be analyzed. In this research, it is proposed that the production design, when linked to the cinematographic narrative, allows us to observe how the concept of family evolved, based on external observation and comparative and descriptive analysis of the formal elements and the cinematographic narrative, concentrated in the selection of three scenes. In the films A Family of Many and Us the Nobles, space is part of the cinematic narrative, transforming as the story progresses.