Wireless Puppets. On Political Discourse of Chilean Newest Cinema

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Claudio Salinas Muñoz
Hans Stange Marcus

Abstract

This essay discusses a current debate on the literature about the so-called newest Chilean cinema. The matter of this it is not the aesthetic qualities nor the strategies of representation of these films, but the underlying political discourse that criticism have recognized in them. Reviewing the two main positions –one that celebrates the subjective turn and the avant-garde shape of these films, another that deplores the invisibilization of problems and social contexts in their representations– the paper proposes that the aesthetics procedures of these films have served to the production of a naturalizing and conservative discourse

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Claudio Salinas Muñoz

Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile. Chile. claudiorsm@yahoo.com

Hans Stange Marcus

 Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile. Chile. hstangemarcus@yahoo.es