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Chilean Cinema and the Abject

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ID4500307
AutoresWalescka Pino-Ojeda (0000-0001-7036-8845, Spanish Department and the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Auckland, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume36
Fascículo5
Páginas133-146
Data de publicação2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x09341980
OpenAlexW2062087070
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas5

Central to the analysis of a corpus of films dealing with current psychosocial conditions in Chile and the challenges of communal reconciliation, are the concepts of collective memory and social trauma. Chilean cinema of the postdictatorship reflects a society whose channels of communication have been broken, in which the past continues to be a source of contestation and dispute. The neoliberal system imposed in the early 1970s has significantly contributed to an isolation and disaffection that limit the possibilities of social healing. Cinema has assumed the role of recovering a sense of community by disallowing the privatization of pain fostered by the hegemonic political practices and discourses of the period of dictatorship by returning this suffering to the social arena from which it originated

Aesthetics · Art · Collective memory · Democracy · Dictatorship · Hegemony · Isolation (microbiology) · Literature · Movie theater · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychosocial · Sociology · Cinema History and Criticism · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Psychology