The unprovable censorship. The debate on Presumed Guilty as a problem of definition of audiovisual genre
From a critical analysis of media coverage and a study of visual rhetoric, this essay argues that the film Presumed guilty is not a documentary. Its intention was not to elaborate a journalistic story of a society’s problem, but to spread civic propaganda to support a legal reform proposal. The mist...
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Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/article/view/41768 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-047&d=article41768oai |
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| Sumario: | From a critical analysis of media coverage and a study of visual rhetoric, this essay argues that the film Presumed guilty is not a documentary. Its intention was not to elaborate a journalistic story of a society’s problem, but to spread civic propaganda to support a legal reform proposal. The mistake in defining the filmic genre caused a public debate focused on the unverifiable thesis of censorship while there were ethical deficiencies in the visual and informative treatment of the subject. |
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