Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema
Brazil, Chile and Argentina
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Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema
Brazil, Chile and Argentina
About this book
This book investigates the role that cinemas in Brazil, Chile and Argentina have played in reconstructing memories of the most recent military dictatorships. These countries have undergone a distinctive post-dictatorship experience marked by unprecedented debates about human rights violations, the silencing of victims and accountability for state crimes. Meanwhile, politically committed filmmakers have created an extensive body of work addressing the dictatorship and its aftermath. This book employs a transnational and comparative approach to examine the strategies that these filmmakers have used to render visible what has remained hidden, to make reappear what has disappeared, and to reinterpret historical actors and events from a contemporary perspective. Through attention to the specific properties of the medium and the socio-historical context in which films have been made, it describes the different cinematic modes of remembering that emerged in response to wider memory frameworks in South America.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction: Cinemas of Memory
- 2. Memory Frameworks: Dictatorship and Transition in the Countries of the Southern Cone
- 3. The Rise of the Witness: The Informative Mode of Cinematic Remembering
- 4. How We Remember: The Reflective Mode of Cinematic Remembering
- 5. The Screened Self: The Diaristic Mode of Cinematic Remembering
- 6. Imagined Pasts, Possible Futures: The Playful Mode of Cinematic Remembering
- 7. Conclusion
- Back Matter