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1 Documenting the Dark Side: Fictional and Documentary Treatments of Torture and the ‘War on Terror’
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Film as a memory-world Film as a memory-world
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Disappearance as a thriller plot Disappearance as a thriller plot
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The black hole of absence The black hole of absence
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The Other 11 September The Other 11 September
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3 The Art of Disappearance: Remembering Political Violence in Argentina and Chile
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Published:December 2014
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Abstract
This chapter explores concerns with memory in films about the disappearances in Chile and Argentina, which encompass thrillers, poetic, performative and animated documentaries, and surreal narratives: Imagining Argentina (2003), Chronicle of An Escape (2006), Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Blonds (2003), Grandmothers (2011), and Post Mortem (2008). As these films are aimed at least partly at transnational audiences, the chapter asks how they foster audience identification with memories they have never had. It draws on Michael Rothberg’s concept of ‘multidirectional memory’ to argue that these films contain powerful associations, evoking other histories of the disappeared in ways that disrupt and unsettle the memories we hold as individuals and communities. One of the links it explores is between the Latin American ‘dirty wars’ and the ‘War on Terror’, in which enforced disappearance has returned on a global scale.
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