The unprovable censorship. The debate on Presumed Guilty as a problem of definition of audiovisual genre

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Published: Oct 11, 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.24484911e.2011.10.41768

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Rodrigo Martínez Martínez
Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM

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From a critical analysis of media coverage and a study of visual rhetoric, this essay argues that the film Presumed guilty is not a documentary. Its intention was not to elaborate a journalistic story of a society’s problem, but to spread civic propaganda to support a legal reform proposal. The mistake in defining the filmic genre caused a public debate focused on the unverifiable thesis of censorship while there were ethical deficiencies in the visual and informative treatment of the subject.

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Martínez Martínez, R. (2013). The unprovable censorship. The debate on Presumed Guilty as a problem of definition of audiovisual genre. Revista Mexicana De Opinión Pública, (10). https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.24484911e.2011.10.41768
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Rodrigo Martínez Martínez, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM

Bachelor of Communication Sciences and maestrante in Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (UNAM), where it develops an investigation into film criticism within the framework of journalism studies and analysis of film. He participated in the news stories of college life (2003), Voices and journalistic narratives of college (2004) and journalistic Recreation university environment and its protagonists (2008), published by the University News Agency anthologies. Also published in compendia Absurda is matter. Chronicles of Chaos citadino (Pyramid, 2010) and A line more. Essays on Eduardo Lizalde (Tierra Adentro, 2011). In the XXIII edition of the Meeting Amic (2011), participated with an analytical proposal entitled "The provocative violence: an aesthetic of contemporary cinema". He also attended the First Congress of Graduate Students (2011), with the theme "Theory and practice of film criticism". He collaborated supplements and cultural sections of the daily El Financiero and El Universal. He teaches courses at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, the film correspondent for Radio Cosmos source of the city of Chicago and writes about film for online digital magazine Punto (www.puntoenlinea.unam.mx) of the Directorate of literature. rodrigomtzm@hotmail.com
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