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,Drug Violence and Narco Wars Part II: Amat Escalante’s , (2013),e crisis are seen through the eyes of a young innocent victim of the current narco violence. The chapter discusses the issues of violence and its representation as performed on the body of the victim. It analyzes the representation of torture and the space inhabited by the tortured body as emblematic of social disintegration.

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,Spectral Visions: Mexican Directors in Europe (Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González I?árritu and nd its socioeconomic challenges. This chapter explores how the films selected for analysis demonstrate a preoccupation with an unstable European society. The chapter takes into account representations of a problematic situation of conflict and social instability from Europe’s past, present and future context.

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,Loss and Mourning in Documentary: Tatiana Huezo’s , (2015), families of the many disappeared, whose lives have changed irreparably following the kidnapping of their loved ones. Using as an example Tatiana Huezo’s exploration of the sense of loss and prolonged mourning found in this context, the analysis examines this condition of perpetual mourning as relayed in her short film . (2014).