Trauma jako następstwo przemocy w kinie meksykańskim XXI wieku
Trauma as a consequence of violence in Mexican cinema of the 21st century

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of images of violence occurring in Mexican cinema in the context of their cultural, social, historical, collective and individual conditions. The content of the film works of Mexican directors was analyzed, classifying them according to the impact they have on the audience. The laconic nature of the analyses of individual film works was dictated by the desire to recall as many titles as possible to illustrate the mass scale of the phenomenon, to show their issues due to cultural, social and political contexts and to indicate specific ways in which films affect viewers. According to the proposal of E.A. Kaplan and B. Wang, four main possibilities of influencing the viewers of a traumatic film have been identified: introducing the audience to trauma to achieve a therapeutic effect, experiencing a substitute trauma by the viewers, proposing the audience to adopt a voyeuristic or witness attitude. The research method is critical theory of cultural studies, with emphasis on the analysis and interpretation of visual data. The article uses considerations of Mexican researchers related to the latest Mexican cinema: Andrés Téllez Parra; Mayté Murillo; Bañuelos Capistrán, Jacob Olmedo Estrada and Juan Carlos, and Alma Delia Zamorano.

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