The fictionalization of a denounce against the military dictatorship. The testimony of Jacobo Timerman on American television (1983)

Abstract

In May 1983, the American network NBC premiered the film Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, directed by Linda Yellen. The film, intended for television broadcast, was an adaptation of the testimonial book by journalist and businessman Jacobo Timerman, published in English in the United States in 1981. Taking Timmerman’s work as a reference and based on numerous theoreticalmethodological works that have addressed cinema as a document for the Social Sciences, we will consider how the film represents and characterizes the last Argentine military dictatorship.