Intercultural dialogue in contemporary Spanish cinema: between the stereotype and ethnocentrism

Abstract

New Spanish reality reflects the phenomenon of immigration either in cultural cinema production or in the thinking and investigation on such subject. Since cinema generates both social mirrors and models, it will be interesting to explore the kinds of relationships Spaniards and immigrants establish within Spanish films. From ignorant approaches leading to stereotypes or daily situations of non violent racism to contexts in which xenophobia and violence shape the attitudes of Spanish people, cinema is starting to account for a problem that current social discourses cannot overlook.