Quien representa a quien?

The issue of representation across the discipline of Cultural Studies is one that is continually brought up through many different angles. The same question of interpretive power constantly runs hand in hand with who is representing whom and why...
An article we were assigned to read by Randal P. Garza and Lucia Florida titled "Film" treats the area of the latin american film industry and how it is difficult to study because of the lack of proper and organized documentation. Another point it makes, which we all are familiar with, is the competition the foregin film industry undergoes against Hollywood. So many great films are produced under the radar that do not have the funds or "sophistication" as Garza and Florida say, to release the film against Hollywood movies that engulf the film industry. Consequently, the films I reviewed this past week, I found all to be victims to Hollywood. The first one I think is unknown to many since it isn't in English or produced by Hollywood, and it doesn't make the top lists because it isn't a commercial movie. The movie basically runs with the theme of "screw or get screwed" where the Mexican fictional village's mayor gets murdered, and a janitor is assigned to take his place. While he takes his job seriously, he soon realizes anything goes in politics, and begins to invent his own laws and taxas.
The obvious corruption displayed in this movie, prepares the background for the next movie I reviewed which dealt with the same issue, but how Mexican immigrants are obligated to search in the U.S. for incomes to send back to their families because of the corruption in their homeland. Sending back significant amounts of money, enough even to open a new hospital, is their goal and only way to help their families move forward. Transnationalism, another keyword in this discipline, is the theme of this second movie, explaining the identity, culture, and social structures of immigrants leaving one culture to adapt to the next.