Ciudad penitenciaria: necropolítica y las formas audiovisuales del Noir Lumpen Latinoamericano

The present article analizes a group of Latin American audiovisual productions under the light of Achile Mbembe’s “necropolitic” problem. The thematical universe of these movies and tv series, produced between 1990’s and 2018, is the criminal world of Latin American cities. I have previously conceptualized these productions as Latin American Lumpen Noir . This concept will allow readers to think about an extra cinematographic problem: how “necropolitical” forms are the biopolitical regime in which vast sectors of Latin American societies live, and how these urban spaces do not take the forms of the Foucauldian panoptic prison, but that of the Latin American prison pavilions.