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This chapter explores the representation of Argentina’s disappeared in Lita Stantic’s 1993 film, Un muro de silencio [A Wall of Silence]. In contrast to the reliance upon affect in contemporary cultural explorations of memory, Stantic adopts a distanced approach based on character pairings and substitutions, metafilmic references and a focus on recursive techniques in the mise-en-scène. Together, these strategies evoke the notion of replacement as a means of both signalling the absence of the disappeared and conjuring up their spectres as a challenge to present and the future generations.
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Ribeiro de Menezes, A. (2018). Remembering the disappeared in Lita Stantic’s Un muro de silencio. In: Owen, J., Segal, N. (eds) On Replacement. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76011-7_14
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