Picturing Ghosts: Memories, Traces and Prophesies of Rebellion in Postdictatorship Chilean Film

ISBN-13: 9781800791190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str.

Katia Pizzi; Struan Gray

Opis

This book explores how the Chilean «transition to democracy» has been narrated in film, focusing on the imaginative afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance. Documentary and fiction films which explore «haunting» in the present past are analysed, contributing to a field of research on post-conflict transitions.

Spis treści

Contents: Behind the Neoclassical Facade: The Phantoms and Spectres of La Moneda Palace - Shipwrecked in the 1990s - The Late Transition: An Expanded Field of Haunting and Disappearance - Seeds, Sparks and Shadows in the Atacama Desert.

O autorze

Struan Gray is a lecturer in the School of Film and Television at Falmouth University. He completed his doctoral studies at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton, and has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of London. His research engages with debates about representation, haunting and the politics of time in «post-conflict» and postdictatorship societies.