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      A modified representation of truth through the use of editing in the documentary La pelota vasca

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          The objective of this article is to establish how director Julio Medem conveyed the overall meaning of The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone (2003), a feature length documentary about terrorism that generated both controversy and commercial success in the Spanish cinema. Through an analysis of the documentary’s editing, this study aims to establish the guidelines and narrative structures used by the director to build the filmic text and thus influence viewers’ opinions. To achieve this, we created a database that facilitates a meticulous quantitative and qualitative analysis of the interventions and discourses used in the film. This methodology can also be used to examine other documentaries with similar narrative characteristics. The analysis showed that the director uses the structure of the documentary and the interviews to different personalities from the Basque Country to configure his own meaning of the so called Basque conflict, and that this meaning is very close to the nationalist thesis. It is established how Medem criticises the Popular Party’s governmental actions and its role in the deterioration of the image of the State, mainly through 80% of negative references about the State’s security forces. The article also shows that the credibility of the interviewees depends on their location within the film’s structure, and on whether their statements are refuted or endorsed by other interviewees.

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          Journal
          Revista Latina de Comunicación Social
          Universidad de La Laguna
          01 January 2011
          : 66
          : 922-944
          : 001-030
          Article
          f1caf54f0b244158b8f2e4081c14475f
          e2bf221a-0403-4f04-b034-e50d292d0946

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          Social sciences (General)
          H1-99
          Social Sciences
          H
          Communication. Mass media
          P87-96
          Philology. Linguistics
          P1-1091
          Language and Literature
          P

          Social & Information networks,Social & Behavioral Sciences,General social science,Human-computer-interaction,Communication & Media studies

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