Resumen

POE, Karen. Mourning bodies: An analysis Of ULI Stelzner’s La isla 2009 and Hernán Jiménez’s A ojos cerrados 2010. Diálogos rev. electr. hist [online]. 2013, vol.14, n.2, pp.221-232. ISSN 1409-469X.

This essay analyzes mourning from a psychoanalytic perspective in two Central American films. Documentary La isla, archivos de una tragedia by German director Uli Stelzner introduces mourning on disappeared people desaparecidos in Guatemala after genocide. A ojos cerrados by Costa Rican director Hernán Jiménez, presents mourning issues at a middle class family in San José downtown, Costa Rica.

Palabras clave : Mourning; Central American films; psychoanalytic theory.

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