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A comprehensive analysis of the role documentary has played in confronting the history, memory and trauma of Pinochet's dictatorship.
List of contents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
PART I
CONCEPTS, HISTORIES, APPROACHES
Chapter 1
Historical trauma, political memory culture and documentary film in Chile
Chapter 2
(Trans)national Chilean cinema: activist, memory and conceptual documentary
PART II
THEMES, IMAGES, SUBJECTS
Chapter 3
Martyr and dictator: documentary of revolution and dictatorship
Chapter 4
Victim and perpetrator: documentary of atrocity and disappearance
Chapter 5
Exiles and homecomings: documentary of memory and nostalgia
Chapter 6
(Post)selves and (post)memories: documentary and (trans)generational memory
PART III
THE DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVE
Chapter 7
Archival footage, public television and online media
Chapter 8
Post-dictatorship documentary and (no)reconciliation in Chile
Appendix 1 Interviews with Filmmakers Appendix 2 Film Production Files Bibliography
Filmography
About the author
Antonio Traverso studied philosophy in Chile in the 1980s and completed a PhD on the philosophy of vision at Murdoch University, Australia, in 2003. He is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at Curtin University, Australia, and his publications include: (as editor) Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture and the Global South (2016) and (as co-editor) El Documental Político en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (2015), Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (2014), and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media (2011).
Summary
A comprehensive analysis of the role documentary has played in confronting the history, memory and trauma of Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Foreword
Renowned film scholar Antonio Traverso contributes an original perspective into the role of cinema, particularly documentary cinema, within the legacy of dictatorship in Chile and other South American countries.
