Media and archives of memory in the documentaries about the disappeared students from Ayotzinapa

• Sophie Dufays ^[1]
  1. [1] KU Leuven

     KU Leuven

     Arrondissement Leuven, Bélgica

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 19, Nº. 2, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Winter 2022), págs. 191-225
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Medios y archivos de la memoriaen los documentales sobre los desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa
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  • This paper examines the values conferred to the digital images in the documentaries about the Ayotzinapa case, focusing on the preexisting o archival images that are used to document or remember the night of Iguala and the 43 disappeared students. The study, based on a large corpus, pursues two interrelated objectives: (1) to analyze which images are used as archives (that is, as supports of memory and sources for history), with what strategies, and in relation to which historical references; (2) to clarify the mnemonic value of the archival digital images in relation to the no digital ones, with reference to the apparently opposed logics of inscription and dissemination. This analysis will shed light on certain media issues and mechanisms in the (audiovisual and digital) memory of the Ayotzinapa case, where the notions of authenticity and persistence are central