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to an audience which is aware of these social
problems, but does not share the same cultural
familiarity with these problems or resolve to
tackle them because they happen “elsewhere”.
By saying “elsewhere”, in this context, one means Or a cultural hero playing the two co-workers
that while these film adaptations align them- against one another after they paid him to do it.
selves with the protagonists, the international
audience may not identify with the protagonists
in the same way. The international audience This project investigates the important empirical questions of :
recognises’ the impractical nature of trying to un- Why have these novels been chosen for adaptation?
derstand the examples of crime and resigns it to Where have these films been distributed and exhibited in Argentina and Brazil and then abroad
the social stigmas like poverty or racial inequality (i.e. at international festivals)?
without considering other factors of the broader
Are these films producing realist or stylised approaches to crime?
historical, social and political context. Therefore
these international audiences are seeing these Are these filmes stylised to appeal to an international audience attuned to similar films on crimi-
problems through a “media safety glass screen” nality emerging from these and other countries?
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