Media, Memory, and Human Rights in Chile

✍ Scribed by Kristin Sorensen

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book investigates the manner in which Chilean media and public culture discuss human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) as well as human rights problems which still exist. Through an intricate interplay of censorship, remembrance, and protest, the media and surrounding culture have played a key role in structuring how Chileans interpret their present and past.  It is with the media’s role in alternately silencing and re-presenting trauma during times of social upheaval and flux, as well as with how audiences respond to these re-presentations, that this book is concerned.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 Television: Self-censorship, Sensationalism, and Structured Absences......Page 40
3 Documentaries and Contested Historical Memories......Page 68
4 The Machuca Phenomenon......Page 86
5 Print Media: Significant Discourses If You Know Where to Look......Page 116
6 Public Protests: Responding to Silences and Omissions......Page 144
7 Conclusion......Page 154
Notes......Page 164
Bibliography......Page 170
C......Page 190
D......Page 191
H......Page 192
M......Page 193
N......Page 194
R......Page 195
T......Page 196
Z......Page 197