FILM NOIR: POLITICS, JOURNALISM AND POWER IN THE COLOMBIAN MANNERIST CINEMA OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY [CINE NEGRO: POLÍTICA, PERIODISMO Y PODER EN EL CINE MANIERISTA COLOMBIANO DEL SIGLO XXI]

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze two Colombian films of the noir genre of twenty first century, Perder es cuestión de método (2004) by Sergio Cabrera –adapted from the homonymous novel by Santiago Gamboa– and La historia del baúl rosado (2005) by Libia Stella Gómez, for its close relationship with the Mannerist story mode proposed by the theoretician Jesús González Requena in his study of Hollywood cinema. A textual analysis is carried out to identify the possible coincidences and divergences between the functions of the hero and the donor, and the fulfillment of the symbolic task proposed in the films. In both films, there is a protagonist without heroic traits as a direct consequence of the weakening of the symbolic function of the narrative structure in a context of political and state corruption. © 2022 Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion. All rights reserved.