The Perpetrating Victim
An Allegorical Reading of Pablo Larraín'sTony Manero(2008)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amit Thakkar (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 523-537 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2017.1386637 |
| OpenAlex | W2768178558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article positions the protagonist Raúl Peralta in Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín 2008) towards the perpetrator end of a victim-perpetrator continuum. With reference to Michael Rothberg’s work on the role of implicated subjects (2013), it acknowledges the character’s status as class victim but foregrounds the repetitive acts of physical violence that mark him out as much more of a perpetrator under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). The article also mobilises theories of allegory developed by Walter Benjamin (1928) and Ismael Xavier (2004) to posit that acquisitive violence, cultures of imitation and façades of unity in the film all resonate with wider aspects of society during the dictatorship. Citing Idelber Avelar (1999), it concludes with the observation that the film’s conceptual engagement with the themes of forgetting and erasure has relevance to this day, both within and beyond Chile, in a neoliberalism-influenced culture of novelty and oblivion
Allegory · Art · Art history · Character (mathematics · Democracy · Dictatorship · Hollywood · Literature · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |