A strange enemy Representations of the '68 Student Movement in Mexican Fiction On Demand
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"October 2 is not forgotten." This slogan synthesizes the demand for memory around one of the darkest events in recent Mexican history: the massacre in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas de Tlatelolco, in 1968.
On October 2, 2018, as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of these events, was released Un extraño enemigo, a political thriller that describes the emergence and development of the 1968 student movement in Mexico. The series was produced by Televisa and distributed worldwide through Amazon Prime Video.
In this paper, the representation of the student movement constructed in the series is critically analyzed and - from that - attempts to explore how the use of the fictional representation of the past can be linked to broader strategies of cultural and political legitimation of television.
The series is approached as a textual event, whose social functioning is articulated in relation to other texts and discourses (Couldry, 2000). On the one hand, are analyzed a set of promotional and journalistic paratexts through which the preferred meanings of the series were socially positioned and, on the other hand, are examined the meanings about the past constructed in it.
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