4 Works
Crímenes de Estado y contra el Estado. Variaciones en el western argentino y mexicano
Román Setton
pp. 53-69.
The paper analyzes the transformations that western film undergoes-a genre that represents the foundational and constituent crimes of the nation state-, in the appropriations made by Argentine and Mexican cinema. I focus in particular on the changes that can be perceived in the figure of the hero, in the representation of indigenous peoples and in the representation of women. Within Argentine cinema, I discuss in particular the film Pampa bárbara, while in Mexican...
Editorial. Narrativa criminal en(tre) México y la Argentina
Yasmin Temelli & Hernán Maltz
pp. 8-15.
XXI. Narrativa criminal en(tre) México y la Argentina
Yasmin Temelli (ed.) & Hernán Maltz (ed.)
125 pp.
Genealogías nacionales para el policial latinoamericano. Cuento Policiaco Mexicano. Breve antología de María Elvira Bermúdez e Historias de Crimen y Misterio de Juan-Jacobo Bajarlía
Martina Guevara
pp. 37-52.
The following text compares two crime fiction anthologies elaborated from a national perspective: Cuento Policiaco Mexicano. Breve antología and Historias de Crimen y Misterio, this last book fundamentally dedicated to Argentine stories. The article is focused on the foreword by María Elvira Bermúdez for the Mexican edition and the preliminary study by Juan-Jacobo Bajarlía for the Argentinian one; the comparative study between the two introductory writings is completed with an analysis of the...