Documentary Cinema and Genocide: towards an integral approach
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2018.144075Keywords:
documentary cinema, genocide, motives, functionsAbstract
A concept coined by Raphel Lemkin in 1944, genocide is considered the crime of crimes, in that direction documentary cinema, has played a preponderant role to know and testify about the various cases. This article is an advance of a larger investigation and it is proposed to introduce a multidisciplinary perspective that gathers and brings together the main contributions of genocide studies and documentary film studies. It is proposed to generate a systematization of the different approaches for the different cases with the objective to think recurrent motives in the representation of the cases, and rhetorical-aesthetic functions of the documentaries on genocides.Downloads
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