Film consumption of young university students in Mexico City. Multiple screens, limited views

Abstract

In this work, we explore the ways, practices, and spaces of film cultural consumption of students from a public university in Mexico City. We have analyzed those cultural activities carried out in the public space and at home, as well as those performed through the different technological formats, inquiring into their relationship with cinema, as a field of culture and the meaning of it in their cultural consumption. Results show that regardless of their access to multiple screens and a wide range of films, young people have limited, scarce knowledge and contact restricted to the consumption of Hollywood and mainstream films. In addition, a distance from the established spaces and modalities of exhibition —cinemas— can be observed, a fact impacting on their use and appropriation of the urban public space.