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Uruguayan Post-dictatorial Documentary: Memory, Affects, and Emotions analyzes how twelve Uruguayan documentaries from the re-democratization period harness the affective potential of film to inscribe the traumatic dictatorial past (1973 1985), construct memory discourses through which to interpret it, and engage spectators. This book fills a significant gap in the study of Southern Cone documentary film and, more specifically, in contemporary Uruguayan documentary. Whereas critics have predominantly focused on Argentine and Chilean post-dictatorial productions, analyses of comparable works from Uruguay remain scarce. Furthermore, it offers an original approach by foregrounding affects as a crucial element in the production of knowledge about the dictatorial past and its impact on the present. Produced between 2004 and 2015, the films examined in this study convene both dominant and marginalized narratives of the recent past. Crafted by seasoned filmmakers such as Mario Handler, José Pedro Charlo, and Virginia Martínez, as well as emerging directors including Maiana Bidegain, Juan Álvarez Neme, and Pablo Martínez Pessi, these works present diverse aesthetic and ideological perspectives.
List of contents
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Through the lens of Male Guerrila Members: Discourses on the Recent Past.- Chapter 2: Women, Memory and Resistance.- Chapter 3: Memory, Trauma and Family: The Uruguayan Dictatorship Through the Eyes of the Second Generation.- Chapter 4: The Protagonism of Civil Society.
About the author
Elizabeth G. Rivero is a Professor of Spanish at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Her field of expertise is Southern Cone literature and culture, and her main areas of research are post-dictatorial Uruguayan literature and film, memory studies, and ecocriticism. Her book
Espacio y nación en la narrativa uruguaya de la posdictadura
(1985-2005) was published by Editorial Corregidor (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 2011. She is also co-editor of the volume
The Image of the River in Latin/o American Literature
(Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017).
Summary
Uruguayan Post-dictatorial Documentary: Memory, Affects, and Emotions
analyzes how twelve Uruguayan documentaries from the re-democratization period harness the affective potential of film to inscribe the traumatic dictatorial past (1973–1985), construct memory discourses through which to interpret it, and engage spectators. This book fills a significant gap in the study of Southern Cone documentary film and, more specifically, in contemporary Uruguayan documentary. Whereas critics have predominantly focused on Argentine and Chilean post-dictatorial productions, analyses of comparable works from Uruguay remain scarce. Furthermore, it offers an original approach by foregrounding affects as a crucial element in the production of knowledge about the dictatorial past and its impact on the present. Produced between 2004 and 2015, the films examined in this study convene both dominant and marginalized narratives of the recent past. Crafted by seasoned filmmakers such as Mario Handler, José Pedro Charlo, and Virginia Martínez, as well as emerging directors including Maiana Bidegain, Juan Álvarez Neme, and Pablo Martínez Pessi, these works present diverse aesthetic and ideological perspectives.
