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Title: Babel: cine y comunicación en un mundo globalizado
Other Titles: Babel: Cinema and communication within a globalized world
Author: Pereira Dominguez, Carmen  
Solé Blanch, Jordi
Valero Iglesias, Luis Fernando
Others: Universidad de Vigo
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Citation: Pereira Domínguez, C., Solé Blanch, J. & Valero Iglesias, L. (2010). Babel: cine y comunicación en un mundo globalizado. POLIS: Revista de la Universidad Bolivariana, 9(26), 109-132. doi: 10.4067/S0718-65682010000200006
Abstract: In this article is presented a formative proposal using the cinema as a cultural material and as a source of knowledge. A film like Babel offers a good material in order to approach globalization and citizenship education, with propositions that demand a new humanism, a new relationship among people, aware of the communication problems, prejudices and cultural collisions derived from technological development. The film Babel questions the existence in a globalize world where everything is interrelated, for this purpose it brings the old biblical myth of the Tower of Babel emphasising wrong identifications, misunderstandings and failed opportunities, as invisible hands that guide our lives; or where destiny eludes us. Babel enables to understand globalize reality. It also allows us to be almost present in four different places as far as USA, México, Morocco and Japan, not only physically distant. We see the contradiction of miscommunication and isolation due to cultural difference in spite of the fictitious technological proximity. We live together, but isolated from one another.
Keywords: Education
Cinema
Communication
Globalization
Cultural diversity
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-65682010000200006
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2010
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0  
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