Motion pictures and politics in the post-dictatorship Chile

Authors

  • María Eugenia Horvitz Universidad de Chile

Abstract

In the treatment of recent history, some theoretical and methodological issues are presented when it's time to consider the archives that come from subjectivity which is represented in filmic images. Among the most important difficulties is the relation between motion pictures and politics, when it refers to the proposals from different memories in a disputed field. You could affirm that the moving images, as well as oral tradition, already are in history, and historiography must interpret critically using other archives, not ignoring subjectivities who are bearers of collective representations in times of crisis in the public trusts.

Keywords:

Critical theory, Political Studies, Film, Collective memory, History