How Everything Changed! Representations of the argentinian family diversity in the documentary series "Emergency Exit"

Abstract

This article presents a first approach on the audiovisual narratives of the documentary production about the LGBTTTIQ + population in Argentina, and more specifically, about homoparental families. The article will focus on the chapter "Diverse Families" of the "Emergency Exit" series directed by Mathieu Orcel. The starting point will be the description of his conditions of production and the potential of the strategies in his narrative to discuss stereotypes consolidated by the heteropatriarchy.
This qualitative and transdisciplinary analysis connects aspects of diverse theories: those belonging to studies of social representations, cultural studies, contributions from socio-semiotics and Queer theory. In this manner, the analysis problematizes the ways in which the documentary verisimilitude, as a world proof, allows the agents the possibilities of narrating and generating tension on the segregated forms assumed by what is considered "normal".