Despair in Colombian Films on Displacement – Shifting from Noir Western to Western Noir

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1 Monticone (2014) considers as examples of this subgenre “seven films released during the 1947-8 and 1948-9 seasons and identified as noir westerns in recent literature. These films are: Ramrod, Warner Bros.’s Pursued (1947) and Colorado Territory (1949), RKO’s Station West (1948) and Blood on the Moon (1948), Columbia’s The Man from Colorado (1948), and Fox’s Yellow Sky (1948)” (p. 338).

2 Even factoring in the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on national film productions as of November 2020.

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Jerónimo Rivera-Betancur

Jerónimo Rivera-Betancur is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Communication, Universidad de la Sabana. Doctor in Communication from Universidad de Navarra, M.Ed. from Universidad Javeriana and B.A. in Social Communication from Universidad de Antioquia. He is the director and founder of the Latin American Network on Audiovisual Narratives (Red INAV), author of seven books on film, communication, education and culture. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Palabra Clave and reviewer for the Ministries of Science and Education in Colombia. He writes on film and culture for the newspaper El Tiempo and on his blog “Jeronimo Rivera Presenta”.

Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed

Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed is a professor and researcher at the School of Social Communication and Journalism, Universidad Externado de Colombia. He holds a PhD from Aberystwyth University. His research crosses between audiovisual media, cultural studies, linguistics, and comics, concerned mostly with the transformation of audiovisual products as they cross markets and developments in minority language media. His most recent publication is the book “Los trabajadores colombianos del cine internacional” (2021, Universidad Externado de Colombia).