Cultural trauma and violence in contemporary Mexico by Telléz Parra, Andrés

“…The article briefly reviews the way in which the concept of trauma, originally elaborated in psychoanalysis, has been taken up by the social sciences under the term social or cultural trauma, as well as by film studies, in order to use it to analyze the way in which two traumatic events in contemporary Mexican history, namely, the massacre of students in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, and the forced disappearance of 43 students from the "Raúl Isidro Burgos" Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa on the night of September 26, 2014, are reworked in Isaac Ezban’s film Los parecidos, in the context of the violence generated by organized crime in contemporary Mexican society.…”
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What burns in Candelaria is life by Virgilí Pino, Dalia

“…Logic and consequence of such definition unfold, also the resonances with some authors of difference feminism. The film Candelaria, a latin american co-production and directed by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza, is taken as a reference to account for the difficulties of capturing the feminine jouissance, either through the gaze or any instinctual aspect as well as through language.…”
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The Lost Daughter or what cinema can teach us of the ominous infantile and the rejection of the feminine in speaking beings by Szrank, Luciana

“…This work is based on the fiction of "The Lost Daughter", an original novel written by Elena Ferrante and adapted for film by director Maggy Gyleenhall. From the interpretations that this film presents, a development is made around the concept of the ominous raised by Freud and taken up by Lacan in his teaching, specified in his Seminar on anxiety. …”
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360° of fictional reality by Ricardi (Texto), Georgina

“…The images that we will share here were taken during the local presentation of the short film at the Bouwer women's prison in September 2019, as part of the Reading and Writing Letters Workshop: Story Factory, which is held weekly at Prison No. 3 for women in Cordoba, through the University Program in the Prison (PUC) and the Secretariat of Extension of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Cordoba.…”
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