Production of the verisimilar-history. Cinema in the limits of historical consciousness

 In this paper some narrative strategies are identified of what may be termed “post-historical cinema”: reduction of scale, partiality for everyday contexts, abandonment of the epic register and a sort of “antihumanism”. It is argued that such cin...

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Autor principal: Aravena, Pablo
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Chile. Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://www.comunicacionymedios.uchile.cl/index.php/RCM/article/view/24906
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cl/cl-002&d=article24906oai
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Sumario: In this paper some narrative strategies are identified of what may be termed “post-historical cinema”: reduction of scale, partiality for everyday contexts, abandonment of the epic register and a sort of “antihumanism”. It is argued that such cinema fails to reflect upon contemporary reality and impedes the development of a historical consciousness.