Resumen

RUIZ, Carmen. Tolerance and Cinema: Venezuelan Cinema as Cultural Text. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2009, vol.71, n.1, pp.47-82. ISSN 2594-0651.

This article understands tolerance as openness to individuals or groups with different characteristics from one's own. Tolerance, as a variable capable of affecting the dynamics of social relations, has gained discursive force in relation to phenomena such as multiculturalism and globalization. On the basis of the semiotics of culture -Lotman and the Tartu School- this research proposes a methodological instrument for operationalizing tolerance as a sociological object. Understood as a content present in the signs of artistic and cultural production such as the cinema, tolerance enables to outline aspects of Venezuelan cultural identity.

Palabras llave : cinema; tolerance; Venezuela.