Overview
- Investigates cinemas in Brazil, Chile, Argentina that reconstructed memories of recent military dictatorships
- Employs a transnational and comparative approach to examine filmmaker strategies
- Describes the different cinematic modes of remembering
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book investigates the role that cinemas in Brazil, Chile and Argentina have played in reconstructing memories of the most recent military dictatorships. These countries have undergone a distinctive post-dictatorship experience marked by unprecedented debates about human rights violations, the silencing of victims and accountability for state crimes. Meanwhile, politically committed filmmakers have created an extensive body of work addressing the dictatorship and its aftermath. This book employs a transnational and comparative approach to examine the strategies that these filmmakers have used to render visible what has remained hidden, to make reappear what has disappeared, and to reinterpret historical actors and events from a contemporary perspective. Through attention to the specific properties of the medium and the socio-historical context in which films have been made, it describes the different cinematic modes of remembering that emerged in response to wider memory frameworks in South America.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tatiana Signorelli Heise is a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures. She has published on political cinema, trauma studies, documentary activism and the sociology of film. She is a frequent collaborator with the Havana-Glasgow Film Festival in Glasgow and the IberoDocs Festival in Edinburgh. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, an MA in the Sociology of Contemporary Culture from the University of York’s Sociology Department and an MPhil in the Sciences of Communication from the University of São Paulo. She has worked for an environmental and animal welfare organisation in the Amazon region of Brazil and has a prior career as a journalist in São Paulo.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema
Book Subtitle: Brazil, Chile and Argentina
Authors: Tatiana Signorelli Heise
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47069-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47068-4Published: 23 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47071-4Due: 12 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-47069-1Published: 22 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 218
Topics: Media and Communication, Memory Studies, Latin American Cinema and TV