Desde La Ville qui tue les femmes a La ciudad de las muertas: el webdocumental como herramienta de indagación de la catástrofe en Ciudad Juárez

Julie Amiot-Guillouet

doi:10.5354/0719-1529.2017.45753

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From La Ville qui tue les femmes to The city of the dead: the web documentary as a tool for investigating the catastrophe in Ciudad Juarez

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Julie Amiot-Guillouet Universidad Sorbona

No. 36 (2017): Monográfico: Imaginario Catastrófico

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1529.2017.45753

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This article analyses how a new audio-visual format, the webdocumentary, deals with a problem related to drug trafficking in Mexico (disappearances and murders of women in Ciudad Juarez), in order to map the city and its criminality much alike a puzzle that can be freely interlocked. The idea is to provide meaning to a series of events considered from the perspective of catastrophe: tremendous, and lacking of significance. Based on traditional sources, the webdocumentary deals with unpublished material provided by a journalistic fieldwork that also gave birth to a book and a documentary. It is a triple investigation and revelation of a hidden reality whose violence spreads in the whole society. The troubling atmosphere of the webdocumentary appears to be an appropriate tool to report on this phenomenon.

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Webdocumental, Ciudad Juárez, Catastrophe, Memory

Author Biography

Julie Amiot-Guillouet, Universidad Sorbona

Maître de conférences à l'université Paris-Sorbonne (UFR d’études ibériques et latino-américaines) Doctorat en études romanes (université Lumière Lyon 2) Sujet : Le Mélodrame cinématographique mexicain dans ses rapports avec Cuba (1938-1958) : enjeux esthétiques et critiques, directeur de recherches : Monsieur le Professeur Jean-Claude Seguin. Thèse soutenue le 6 décembre 2003.

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Amiot-Guillouet, J. (2017). From La Ville qui tue les femmes to The city of the dead: the web documentary as a tool for investigating the catastrophe in Ciudad Juarez. Comunicación Y Medios, (36), 8–19. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1529.2017.45753