This paper deals with an aspect rarely explored in Transtextuality Studies: the relationship between a literary text and its film adaptation (El secreto de sus ojos) with a remake (Secret of Their Eyes). This analysis considers the categories of readaptation, simple remake and compound or mixed adaptation. For this purpose, it focuses on (1) the representation of violence, in accordance with the distinction proposed by Steven Pinker (according to Hobbes) on the causes of human conflict, (2) on the construction of the characters, and (3) on how images are shown. In this way, the necessary readjustments that are carried out in two very different historical contexts are analyzed: the situation prior to the Argentine Military Dictatorship of 1976 (where Sacheri?s novel and Campanella?s film are set) and the anti-terrorist hypervigilance after the attacks of September 11th (in Billy Ray?s ve... [Llegir més ...]