Genres or Strategies? Cinematographic and Historical Discourses in Chilean Film

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Hans Stange Marcus
Claudio Salinas Muñoz
Eduardo Santa Cruz Achurra
José Miguel Santa Cruz Grau

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Historical discourses in cinema have generally given rise to cinematographic genres. In Chilean fiction films, however, a different scope is necessary to study its discourses. This essay proposes that it is possible to recognize three main aesthetic strategies by which Chilean fiction films use historical discourse in order to produce certain “verisimilitude effects”: contextual comment, hegemonic or counterhegemonic reinforcement, and narrative subordination.

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Hans Stange Marcus

Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Universidad de Barcelona. Barcelona, España.

Claudio Salinas Muñoz

Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Universidad de Barcelona. Barcelona, España.

Eduardo Santa Cruz Achurra

Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Universidad de Barcelona. Barcelona, España.

José Miguel Santa Cruz Grau

Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Universidad de Barcelona. Barcelona, España.