Melodrama as utopia in The Silence of Others.
The acclaimed documentary The Silence of Others (Carracedo and Bahar, 2018) follows the recent efforts of victims of persecution during the Spanish Civil War and subsequent dictatorship (1936–1975) to achieve justice measures. This article demonstrates that the documentary employs melodramatic conve...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic Review Vol. 92; no. 3; pp. 553 - 577 |
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| Formato: | Film/TV Criticism and Review |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer2024
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