Al servicio del texto maestro; repensando los paratextos digitales en la película de clave social: who is Dayani Crystal?/¿quién es Dayani Crystal? (Marc Silver, 2013)

Deborah Shaw

Al servicio del texto maestro; repensando los paratextos digitales en la película de clave social: who is Dayani Crystal?/¿quién es Dayani Crystal? (Marc Silver, 2013)

Translated title of the contribution: Serving the master text, rethinking digital paratexts in the social issue film: who is Dayani Crystal?

Deborah Shaw

School of Film, Media & Communication

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Abstract

In this chapter I focus on a specific social issue – migration from Central America and Mexico to the USA – and the texts that engage with this. My main case study is the activist project behind the film Who is Dayani Cristal? (Marc Silver, 2013), and I argue that both the film and the project are salient examples of an emerging new paradigm for the human rights documentary. In addition to the usual paratextual components of interviews with the filmmakers, focus on the star body (in this case that of Gael García Bernal), promotional material and DVD extras, this is a film that broadens the scope of additional material to contain extratextual activist, educational and community work, to the point that it destabilizes the distinctions between core and surrounding texts.

Translated title of the contribution	Serving the master text, rethinking digital paratexts in the social issue film: who is Dayani Crystal?
Original language	Spanish
Title of host publication	Imaginarios digitales en los cines hispánicos. Historias de pertenencia y desarraigo
Editors	Miguel Fernández Labayen, Josetxo Cerdán
Publisher	Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Pages	63-82
Number of pages	29
ISBN (Electronic)	9783631897782, 9783631897799
ISBN (Print)	9783631762271
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023

Publication series

Name	Estudios hispánicos en el contexto global. Hispanic Studies in the Global Context. Hispanistik im globalen Kontext
Publisher	Peter Lang
Volume	24

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Cite this

Shaw, D. (2023). Al servicio del texto maestro; repensando los paratextos digitales en la película de clave social: who is Dayani Crystal?/¿quién es Dayani Crystal? (Marc Silver, 2013). In M. Fernández Labayen, & J. Cerdán (Eds.), Imaginarios digitales en los cines hispánicos. Historias de pertenencia y desarraigo (pp. 63-82). (Estudios hispánicos en el contexto global. Hispanic Studies in the Global Context. Hispanistik im globalen Kontext; Vol. 24). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1309174

Shaw, Deborah. / Al servicio del texto maestro; repensando los paratextos digitales en la película de clave social: who is Dayani Crystal?/¿quién es Dayani Crystal? (Marc Silver, 2013). Imaginarios digitales en los cines hispánicos. Historias de pertenencia y desarraigo. editor / Miguel Fernández Labayen ; Josetxo Cerdán . Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2023. pp. 63-82 (Estudios hispánicos en el contexto global. Hispanic Studies in the Global Context. Hispanistik im globalen Kontext).

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Shaw, D 2023, Al servicio del texto maestro; repensando los paratextos digitales en la película de clave social: who is Dayani Crystal?/¿quién es Dayani Crystal? (Marc Silver, 2013). in M Fernández Labayen & J Cerdán (eds), Imaginarios digitales en los cines hispánicos. Historias de pertenencia y desarraigo. Estudios hispánicos en el contexto global. Hispanic Studies in the Global Context. Hispanistik im globalen Kontext, vol. 24, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, pp. 63-82. <https://www.peterlang.com/document/1309174>

Al servicio del texto maestro; repensando los paratextos digitales en la película de clave social: who is Dayani Crystal?/¿quién es Dayani Crystal? (Marc Silver, 2013). / Shaw, Deborah.
Imaginarios digitales en los cines hispánicos. Historias de pertenencia y desarraigo. ed. / Miguel Fernández Labayen; Josetxo Cerdán . Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2023. p. 63-82 (Estudios hispánicos en el contexto global. Hispanic Studies in the Global Context. Hispanistik im globalen Kontext; Vol. 24).

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