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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CINEMATIC SABOTAGES: HITCHCOCK, TARANTINO, AND ALMODÓVAR by Stallings, Gregory Charles

“…Some texts such as the films studied in this article explicitly sabotage the models of the world that historically have served to repress us, in such a way that criticism as sabotage joins with the Walter Benjamin’s vision of a new art that would be capable of exploding the aura (the cult values inseparable from fascism) associated with classic art. …”
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