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Studies in European Cinema
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concepts of power relations, identity, and personalit... more The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concepts of power relations, identity, and personality in the cinema of Miklós Jancsó. Even though I take the film My Way Home (1965) as the object study, I point out that the analysis can be applied to the rest of his filmography, since it consists of a recurrent study of similar narrative patterns and topics. To achieve this goal and offer a better understanding of the philosophy behind the cinema of the Hungarian director, I approach the study from a Foucaultian perspective, from which I find a set of relevant similarities and differences between the political visions of both authors. I conclude that how power relations are represented in Jancsó’s films lead to the idea of the inevitable, in which characters are not in control of their fate
Interactive Film and Media Journal
One of the most representative aspects of fiction films that address the COVID-19 pandemic is the... more One of the most representative aspects of fiction films that address the COVID-19 pandemic is the insistent appearance of electronic devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones) to allow virtual communication between the main characters of the story. I claim that, in those films, the use of these devices and the images they produce is different from those that appeared in pre-pandemic cinema, and, as such, conveys different meanings to the filmed images. In order to explore these ideas, I will first study the ontology of phone footage imagery, to establish the main traits of this type of image. Afterwards, I will signal the differences between pre-pandemic and pandemic phone footage imagery, in order to understand the key formal traits that imply different meanings for each case. Finally, by analyzing some of the most relevant commercial films about the COVID-19 pandemic that have been produced so far (Songbird (2020), Locked Down (2021), Safer at Home (2021), Host (2020), and Ctrl+Alt+T...
Analecta política, 2022
The present article analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The... more The present article analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) from the perspective of trauma. The aim of this study is to give new approaches that could allow a deeper understanding of such a complex sociopolitical situation as the one that is taking place in nowadays Indonesia. First, I will introduce the term cultural trauma to explain the situation of the victims of the 1965-66 mass killings that took place in Indonesia. Then, I will make use of the concept of the political taboo to better understand how the official narrative imposed by the government has worked, and still works, as some sort of unquestionable myth. Afterward, I will point out that these two concepts give birth to a vicious cycle from which escaping becomes highly unlikely. A possible solution I propose here comes from studying another type of trauma, that of the perpetrator, since, in an indirect way, it can lead to an improvement of cultural trauma. By...
Studies in Eastern European Cinema
Revista Orphanik, 2017
El presente texto analiza la filmografía del director Michael Bay apoyándose en tres pilares fund... more El presente texto analiza la filmografía del director Michael Bay apoyándose en tres pilares fundamentales: la inesperada cercanía de su estilo al del futurismo italiano, un detallado estudio de la puesta en escena y el uso del guion en su cine, y un análisis de la ideología de sus imágenes. El objetivo del artículo radica en la ruptura de moldes a la hora de acercarnos al análisis cinematográfico, proponiendo una mirada desprejuiciada al cine de uno de los autores hacia los que más prejuicios se suele tener.
Recorrido al motivo visual de la mujer en la ventana, símbolo de la reclusión femenina en el hoga... more Recorrido al motivo visual de la mujer en la ventana, símbolo de la reclusión femenina en el hogar. Reflejo de una sociedad machista, altamente explotado en las artes. En este caso, se realiza un análisis concreto de "Revolutionary Road", película de 2008 dirigida por Sam Mendes.
VOL. 12, NÚM. 22 ENE-JUN (2022) by Yago Paris
Perpetrator Trauma as a Possible Solution for Cultural Trauma: The Case of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), 2022
The present article analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The... more The present article analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) from the perspective of trauma. The aim of this study is to give new approaches that could allow a deeper understanding of such a complex sociopolitical situation as the one that is taking place in nowadays Indonesia. First, I will introduce the term cultural trauma to explain the situation of the victims of the 1965-66 mass killings that took place in Indonesia. Then, I will make use of the concept of the political taboo to better understand how the official narrative imposed by the government has worked, and still works, as some sort of unquestionable myth. Afterward, I will point out that these two concepts give birth to a vicious cycle from which escaping becomes highly unlikely. A possible solution I propose here comes from studying another type of trauma, that of the perpetrator, since, in an indirect way, it can lead to an improvement of cultural trauma. By approaching trauma in a non-moralistic sense, allowing the perpetrator the status of a victim, I intend to highlight the importance of empathy and understanding in the process of healing of not only perpetrator trauma, but also, and more importantly, cultural trauma.
Studies in European Cinema
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concepts of power relations, identity, and personalit... more The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concepts of power relations, identity, and personality in the cinema of Miklós Jancsó. Even though I take the film My Way Home (1965) as the object study, I point out that the analysis can be applied to the rest of his filmography, since it consists of a recurrent study of similar narrative patterns and topics. To achieve this goal and offer a better understanding of the philosophy behind the cinema of the Hungarian director, I approach the study from a Foucaultian perspective, from which I find a set of relevant similarities and differences between the political visions of both authors. I conclude that how power relations are represented in Jancsó’s films lead to the idea of the inevitable, in which characters are not in control of their fate
Interactive Film and Media Journal
One of the most representative aspects of fiction films that address the COVID-19 pandemic is the... more One of the most representative aspects of fiction films that address the COVID-19 pandemic is the insistent appearance of electronic devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones) to allow virtual communication between the main characters of the story. I claim that, in those films, the use of these devices and the images they produce is different from those that appeared in pre-pandemic cinema, and, as such, conveys different meanings to the filmed images. In order to explore these ideas, I will first study the ontology of phone footage imagery, to establish the main traits of this type of image. Afterwards, I will signal the differences between pre-pandemic and pandemic phone footage imagery, in order to understand the key formal traits that imply different meanings for each case. Finally, by analyzing some of the most relevant commercial films about the COVID-19 pandemic that have been produced so far (Songbird (2020), Locked Down (2021), Safer at Home (2021), Host (2020), and Ctrl+Alt+T...
Analecta política, 2022
The present article analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The... more The present article analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) from the perspective of trauma. The aim of this study is to give new approaches that could allow a deeper understanding of such a complex sociopolitical situation as the one that is taking place in nowadays Indonesia. First, I will introduce the term cultural trauma to explain the situation of the victims of the 1965-66 mass killings that took place in Indonesia. Then, I will make use of the concept of the political taboo to better understand how the official narrative imposed by the government has worked, and still works, as some sort of unquestionable myth. Afterward, I will point out that these two concepts give birth to a vicious cycle from which escaping becomes highly unlikely. A possible solution I propose here comes from studying another type of trauma, that of the perpetrator, since, in an indirect way, it can lead to an improvement of cultural trauma. By...
Studies in Eastern European Cinema
Revista Orphanik, 2017
El presente texto analiza la filmografía del director Michael Bay apoyándose en tres pilares fund... more El presente texto analiza la filmografía del director Michael Bay apoyándose en tres pilares fundamentales: la inesperada cercanía de su estilo al del futurismo italiano, un detallado estudio de la puesta en escena y el uso del guion en su cine, y un análisis de la ideología de sus imágenes. El objetivo del artículo radica en la ruptura de moldes a la hora de acercarnos al análisis cinematográfico, proponiendo una mirada desprejuiciada al cine de uno de los autores hacia los que más prejuicios se suele tener.
Recorrido al motivo visual de la mujer en la ventana, símbolo de la reclusión femenina en el hoga... more Recorrido al motivo visual de la mujer en la ventana, símbolo de la reclusión femenina en el hogar. Reflejo de una sociedad machista, altamente explotado en las artes. En este caso, se realiza un análisis concreto de "Revolutionary Road", película de 2008 dirigida por Sam Mendes.
Perpetrator Trauma as a Possible Solution for Cultural Trauma: The Case of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), 2022
The present article analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The... more The present article analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) from the perspective of trauma. The aim of this study is to give new approaches that could allow a deeper understanding of such a complex sociopolitical situation as the one that is taking place in nowadays Indonesia. First, I will introduce the term cultural trauma to explain the situation of the victims of the 1965-66 mass killings that took place in Indonesia. Then, I will make use of the concept of the political taboo to better understand how the official narrative imposed by the government has worked, and still works, as some sort of unquestionable myth. Afterward, I will point out that these two concepts give birth to a vicious cycle from which escaping becomes highly unlikely. A possible solution I propose here comes from studying another type of trauma, that of the perpetrator, since, in an indirect way, it can lead to an improvement of cultural trauma. By approaching trauma in a non-moralistic sense, allowing the perpetrator the status of a victim, I intend to highlight the importance of empathy and understanding in the process of healing of not only perpetrator trauma, but also, and more importantly, cultural trauma.