Peirce’s secondness in true crime documentaries. Annotations on The Jinx: The Life and Death of Robert Durst by López Delacruz, Santiago Martín

“…Through the case study of The Jinx: the life and death of Robert Durst, a true crime documentary that has had important relevance in the recent public and judicial sphere, we propose to analyze the link between the documentary and reality from the triadic model of the sign proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce, and specifically, on how secondness is a mode of meaning that gives documentary filmmaking the ability to transfer the textures of reality to an indexical level.…”
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