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Narcos, rewriting history with archives

  • Publication type: Journal article
  • Journal: Écrans
    2021 – 1, n° 15
    . Mémoire et réécritures dans les séries télévisées
  • Author: Tahir (Nadia)
  • Abstract: The series Narcos depicts the history of drug trafficking in Latin America, specifically cocaine trafficking between Colombia and the United States. By using real and created archival footage to provide historical facts and figures of the American continents, its images serve as a moral caution to avoid glorifying gangsters. However, they also contribute to rewriting history, nourishing thus a problematic confusion both ethically and politically.
  • Pages: 233 to 248
  • Journal: Screens
  • CLIL theme: 3157 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Sciences de l'information et de la communication
  • EAN: 9782406122593
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-12259-3
  • ISSN: 2491-2557
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12259-3.p.0233
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 11-17-2021
  • Periodicity: Biannual
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Narcos, archives, history, moral support