culture and the reality of Latin American culture. The stationary an even stagnant nature of media images is contrasted with the struggle for daily existence and the revolutioanry fervor that this may engender in people who see the image on the screen and contrast that with the reality of their lives.
In Manuel Puig's novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, two men share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. One is Molina, a homosexual sentenced to eight years in prison for the corruption of minors, and the other is Valentfn, a young Marxist imprisoned for revolutionary activities. Molina tries to pass the time by telling the younger man about films he has seen, recreating the stories with words. It is in the course of these retellings of the different films that the reader gets to know these characters and sees how they develop as they interact with one another and with the images
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