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15 Cards in this Set
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Who directed Chile, memoria obstinada? |
Patricio Guzmán |
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When was it made? |
1997 |
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What happened in 1973? |
The Chilean military, with support from the US, brought down the democratically elected socialist Unidad Popular, the government of Salvador Allende, initiating one of Latin America's longest and bloodiest dictatorships |
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What techniques did Guzmán say they used in La Batalla de Chile? |
Wide angles and shots from a distance, in order to capture everything |
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According to Klubock, how does the change in tone of the films mirror reality in Chile? |
The shift to individuals reflects the atomisation and dispersion of social life in free market, post-coup Chile |
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What do critics say about interviews and testimonials? |
They argue that they don't provide unmediated access to experience, that they can't be read positivistically as transparent windows onto past experience |
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Where does sociologist Maurice Halbwachs say memory takes place? |
He says memory takes place through language and socially constructed symbolic systems and conventions |
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What does Klubock think about subjective/objective history? |
He says that memory's gaps, distortions and mistakes may prove as meaningful as "objective accounts" |
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According to Cisneros, in what way are the films intertextual? |
We see the relationship between contemporary recollections of events and documentary images |
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According to Klubock, what does the musical motif (opening movement of the Moonlight Sonata by Bach) conjure up? |
Nostalgia, loss and melancholy |
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What does Klubock argue about discontinuity? |
Discontinuity is a constitutive element of historicity |
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In what way does Klubock think that history and memory are related? |
They are not the same, but neither are they starkly opposed |
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According to Rancière, what is cinematic memory? |
Cinematic memory is a 'fiction' or forging of an assemblage of elements taken from disparate signifying regimes |
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What does Cisneros argue about the suitability of cinema for memory? |
Cinema's formal principles are most apposite to structures of rupture and discontinuity |
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When were the three parts of La Batalla released and what were they called? |
1975 La insurrección de la burgeusía; 1976 Golpe de Estado; 1978 El poder de la gente |
