Armed struggle in the cinema: fiction, documentary, memory

Abstract In his book, Fernando Selliprandy analyses two films: Four Days In September (1996) and Hércules 56 (2006), both narrating the same event: the kidnapping of the American Ambassador in Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, by the armed resistance, in September 1969. Based on a detailed description of the audiovisual material, he intends to understand the use of film image in the construction of historical memory. He also outlines possible historiographic conclusions, observing the relationships between what is shown in the film speech and what is beyond the narrative, in the historical conditions from which these films have emerged.