The Post-dictatorial Documentaries of Patricio Guzmán: Chile, Obstinate Memory; The Pinochet Case and Island of Robinson Crusoe
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2007-05-10
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Dorfman, Ariel
Chanan, Michael
Gaines, Jane
Hardt, Michael
Surin, Kenneth
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Abstract
The aim of this investigation is to study the various cinematic and rhetorical strategies
that Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán uses to construct a complex image of the postdictatorial
Chilean society. By analyzing three of his documentaries from the late 1990s and early
2000s (Chile, Obstinate Memory; The Pinochet Case and Island of Robinson Crusoe),
I argue that Guzmán's cinematic images expose the challenges of constructing a collective
memory of the 1973 coup in Chile and its aftermath. In an attempt to interrogate the
social, political and economic dynamics of the Chilean transition to democracy that
began in the year 1990, Guzmán's documentaries also explore the consequences of the
Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1989) in the present. The historical conjuncture of postdictatorial
Chile is connected to at least three geopolitical phenomenons: the Post-Cold War international
arena formed after the dissolution of existent socialist regimes, the advent of neoliberalism
as a transnational economic paradigm, and the struggle for global human rights. The
documentaries of Patricio Guzmán are poetic responses to each of these geopolitical
phenomenons that affect the constitution of the Chilean present.
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patricio guzmanpolitics of memory
transition to democracy in Chile
globalization of justice
documentary
Robinson Crusoe
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Rodriguez, Juan Carlos (2007). The Post-dictatorial Documentaries of Patricio Guzmán: Chile, Obstinate Memory; The
Pinochet Case and Island of Robinson Crusoe. Dissertation, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/203.Collections
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