Struan Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Struan Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Struan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Falmouth University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-4477-2583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unwieldy matter: Liquid landscapes of memory in postdictatorship Chilean film
This article considers the haunting presence of the Pacific Ocean in two films about Southern Chile that respond to the aftermath of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-90). I build from the premise that the heterogeneous materiality of landscapes can provoke reflection on multiple entangled histories, memories and hauntings, potentially enabling a counter-hegemonic form of historiography. Water itself is rarely analysed as ghostly matter. Its liquid…
Behind the Neoclassical Façade: A Haunted National Monument in Chilean Film
This article analyses filmic representations of the Chilean presidential palace (La Moneda), an emblematic site at which narratives of past violence, national exceptionalism and emancipatory anticipation intersect. I build on a growing corpus of work that uses film analysis to explore the spatiality of dictatorship memories and legacies in the Southern Cone. Unlike more conventional “sites of memory”, La Moneda is simultaneously a functioning gov…
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Behind the Neoclassical Façade: A Haunted National Monument in Chilean Film
This article analyses filmic representations of the Chilean presidential palace (La Moneda), an emblematic site at which narratives of past violence, national exceptionalism and emancipatory anticipation intersect. I build on a growing corpus of work that uses film analysis to explore the spatiality of dictatorship memories and legacies in the Southern Cone. Unlike more conventional “sites of memory”, La Moneda is simultaneously a functioning gov…
Unwieldy matter: Liquid landscapes of memory in postdictatorship Chilean film
This article considers the haunting presence of the Pacific Ocean in two films about Southern Chile that respond to the aftermath of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-90). I build from the premise that the heterogeneous materiality of landscapes can provoke reflection on multiple entangled histories, memories and hauntings, potentially enabling a counter-hegemonic form of historiography. Water itself is rarely analysed as ghostly matter. Its liquid…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Cinema History and Criticism (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Democracy (1 works)