Cinema and backlighting: on the threshold of repression of Argentine media culture

• Main Author: Serelle, Márcio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2014
• Subjects: Argentine cinema; authoritarianism; media culture; Cinema argentino; totalitarismo; cultura midiática; narrativa; Argentino; Argentina; Argentine; Valentín; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/17052

This paper examines the backlighting technique used in Argentine movies (mainly Valentín, Kamchatka, and The Secret in Their Eyes), seen as a kind of narrative composition in which events related to dictatorships and other forms of repression operate in the dark, but strongly affect the fate of the...