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The first comprehensive study - in English or Spanish - of Chilean cinema.
Chilean cinema is gaining increased global attention and recognition, thanks to recent international awards, participation in international film festivals and increased accessibility through streaming platforms. Integrating film studies, cultural studies and historiography, this book brings together scholars from North America, South America, Europe, and Oceania to provide a comprehensive introduction to Chilean cinema in the English language for a broad range of readers, both those who may be unfamiliar with the topic as well as specialists interested in learning more.
The first part of the book is dedicated to a critical look at key moments in Chilean cinema, from the documentary shorts and silent films of the early twentieth century to the New Chilean Cinema of the 1960s to current trends in the twenty-first century, moving readers chronologically through the beginning of the Chilean film industry to more recent productions. The second section offers an in-depth look at directors of interest (Raúl Ruiz, Ignacio Agüero, Alicia Scherson, Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio). The third and final section finishes with case studies on specific topics (class representation, the effects of the military dictatorship (1973-1990), women documentarians, militarized masculinity, historical revisionism, environmental concerns, and migrant representation) to propose new directions for Chilean film study. Each chapter, including the introduction, supplies a list of suggested further readings for those interested.
Chilean cinema is gaining increased global attention and recognition, thanks to recent international awards, participation in international film festivals and increased accessibility through streaming platforms. Integrating film studies, cultural studies and historiography, this book brings together scholars from North America, South America, Europe, and Oceania to provide a comprehensive introduction to Chilean cinema in the English language for a broad range of readers, both those who may be unfamiliar with the topic as well as specialists interested in learning more.
The first part of the book is dedicated to a critical look at key moments in Chilean cinema, from the documentary shorts and silent films of the early twentieth century to the New Chilean Cinema of the 1960s to current trends in the twenty-first century, moving readers chronologically through the beginning of the Chilean film industry to more recent productions. The second section offers an in-depth look at directors of interest (Raúl Ruiz, Ignacio Agüero, Alicia Scherson, Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio). The third and final section finishes with case studies on specific topics (class representation, the effects of the military dictatorship (1973-1990), women documentarians, militarized masculinity, historical revisionism, environmental concerns, and migrant representation) to propose new directions for Chilean film study. Each chapter, including the introduction, supplies a list of suggested further readings for those interested.
Price: $170.00
Pages: 384
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Tamesis Books
Publication Date:
24 November 2026
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781855664173
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Regional & National, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Film: styles and genres, Social and ethical issues
Introduction: A 'Small Cinema' with a Large Scope.
Vania Barraza and Elizabeth Osborne
Part I. A Chronological Overview: Emergence and Evolution
1. Lights and Shadows of Early Chilean Cinema: From Documentary Shorts to Fiction Features
Antonia Krebs, Marcelo Morales Cortés, and Ximena Vergara
2. 1940s Filmic Culture in Santiago de Chile
Claudia Bossay
3. Emergent, Dominant, and Residual: Notes on the Construction of the Popular in the New Chilean Cinema (1958-1973)
Juan Pablo Silva-Escobar and Valentina Raurich
Translated by Elizabeth Osborne
4. Chilean Cinema during the Dictatorship: A History of Censorship and Self-Censorship
Jorge Iturriaga Echeverría
Translated by Tracy Mackay
5. Archives, Memories, Postdictatorship, Transition: Chilean Cinema of the 90s
Wolfgang Bongers
6. Chilean Cinema between National Cinema and the International Circuit
María Paz Peirano
Part II. Authors / Auteurs
7. Raúl Ruiz's Transnational Aesthetics
Ignacio López-Vicuña and Andreea Marinescu
8. Passages on Chilean Documentary Cinema: Ignacio Agüero's Essay Films
Paola Lagos Labbé
9. Alicia Scherson: On Vision, Language, and Translation
Vania Barraza
10. 'Cinema Can Never Be Apolitical': Sebastián Lelio and Pablo Larraín as Mavericks of Visionary Chilean Film
Laura Hatry
Part III. Culture, Politics, and Power
11. Los obreros son así: Labor and Aesthetic Form in Chilean Cinema
Stephen Buttes
12. A Point of Indiscernibility: Chilean Cinema in the Early Years of Exile
Ignacio Albornoz
13. Women's Documentary Filmmaking in Chile: From State of Exception to the Exceptionality of Everyday Life
Walescka Pino-Ojeda
14. Militarized Masculinity and Patriarchal Power in Chilean Documentary
Lisa Renee DiGiovanni
15. Postcolonial Views in Contemporary Chilean Cinema
Carolina Urrutia Neno
Translated by Laura Palacios
16. Between Landscape and Environment in Chilean Cinema: From a Crisis of Representation to a Crisis of Futurity
Sebastián Figueroa
17. Chilean Immigration Cinema: Contested Otherness and the Reclaiming of Citizenship in Post-Dictatorship Neoliberalism
Sandra del Valle
Vania Barraza and Elizabeth Osborne
Part I. A Chronological Overview: Emergence and Evolution
1. Lights and Shadows of Early Chilean Cinema: From Documentary Shorts to Fiction Features
Antonia Krebs, Marcelo Morales Cortés, and Ximena Vergara
2. 1940s Filmic Culture in Santiago de Chile
Claudia Bossay
3. Emergent, Dominant, and Residual: Notes on the Construction of the Popular in the New Chilean Cinema (1958-1973)
Juan Pablo Silva-Escobar and Valentina Raurich
Translated by Elizabeth Osborne
4. Chilean Cinema during the Dictatorship: A History of Censorship and Self-Censorship
Jorge Iturriaga Echeverría
Translated by Tracy Mackay
5. Archives, Memories, Postdictatorship, Transition: Chilean Cinema of the 90s
Wolfgang Bongers
6. Chilean Cinema between National Cinema and the International Circuit
María Paz Peirano
Part II. Authors / Auteurs
7. Raúl Ruiz's Transnational Aesthetics
Ignacio López-Vicuña and Andreea Marinescu
8. Passages on Chilean Documentary Cinema: Ignacio Agüero's Essay Films
Paola Lagos Labbé
9. Alicia Scherson: On Vision, Language, and Translation
Vania Barraza
10. 'Cinema Can Never Be Apolitical': Sebastián Lelio and Pablo Larraín as Mavericks of Visionary Chilean Film
Laura Hatry
Part III. Culture, Politics, and Power
11. Los obreros son así: Labor and Aesthetic Form in Chilean Cinema
Stephen Buttes
12. A Point of Indiscernibility: Chilean Cinema in the Early Years of Exile
Ignacio Albornoz
13. Women's Documentary Filmmaking in Chile: From State of Exception to the Exceptionality of Everyday Life
Walescka Pino-Ojeda
14. Militarized Masculinity and Patriarchal Power in Chilean Documentary
Lisa Renee DiGiovanni
15. Postcolonial Views in Contemporary Chilean Cinema
Carolina Urrutia Neno
Translated by Laura Palacios
16. Between Landscape and Environment in Chilean Cinema: From a Crisis of Representation to a Crisis of Futurity
Sebastián Figueroa
17. Chilean Immigration Cinema: Contested Otherness and the Reclaiming of Citizenship in Post-Dictatorship Neoliberalism
Sandra del Valle