Abstract

FERNANDEZ, Claudia N.  and  MORETTI, María Inés. Filming Oedipus: Mythical Montage of Recent Political History in Two Argentine Movies: Vidas privadas and El recuento de los daños. UH [online]. 2016, n.282, pp. 149-166. ISSN 0253-9276.

The films Vidas privadas (2001) and El recuento de los daños (2009), directed by Fito Páez and Inés de Oliveira Cezar, respectively, deal with the consequences of the last Argentine military dictatorship's crimes, mainly with the illegal appropriation of children born in prison. Both films have chosen Oedipus myth to take to the extremes of incest taboo the harm effect of this terror regime. The myth provides, in both cases, an interpretive framework to read and understand what happened.

Keywords : appropriation; military dictatorship; identity; memory; myth.

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