This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Tamburrini por Caetano: del testimonio al film de terror
NOTAS
MARCH 2019
December 2018 - March 2019
Universidad Católica Argentina, Argentina
Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze the process of filmic adaptation of Claudio Tamburrini’s testimony, Pase libre. La fuga de la Mansión Seré (2002), into Israel Adrián Caetano’s Chronicle of an Escape (Crónica de una fuga, 2006). The paper considers the problem of transformation of point of view in the transposition of a first person testimony, as well as the use of horror genre codes in the cinematographic representation of concentration camps in Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983). The construction of characters and the effects of suspension of morality inside the clandestine center of detention and torture are also studied. Finally, the article discusses the limits of literary and audiovisual representation of horror, in order to avoid spectacularization and sensationalism.
Key Words: Adaptation | cinematographic transposition | testimony | horror films | Chronicle of an Escape
This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Tamburrini por Caetano: del testimonio al film de terror
NOTAS
Volume 9 | Nro 1
Cinema and trauma
Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.