Calacas cruzadas: representaciones sociales sobre muerte en las películas El libro de la lida y La tumba de las luciérnagas

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to identify the social representations of death in the animated films The Book of Life and Grave of the Fireflies, based on a visual system already established by Walt Disney Animation Studios; this identification was carried out through a cinematographic analysis designed especially for the recognition of social representations of death in the films featured in this research, where visuality played a leading role in the contemplation of these films in the different feature films studied. The theoretical foundation was provided by Durkheim, Moscovici and Abric around social representations, death from Heidegger's theory of being, the conceptualization of childhood from a group of interdisciplinary national and international researchers, the notion of culture from Geertz and the construction of a reciprocal relationship between childhood and cinema from Bácares Jara (2024), who states that "Cinema is a ready source to delve into the functioning of the social construction of childhood, that is, how we think, feel or define children and adolescents." It was developed within the qualitative research method, with an interpretive approach, with a methodological strategy designed from the theories of film microanalysis by Casetti, Di Chio and Zunzunegui, implementing novel research techniques and instruments.