Television: self-censorship, sensationalism, and structured absences -- Documentaries and contested historical memories -- The Machuca phenomenon -- Print media: significant discourses if you know where to look -- Public protests: responding to silences and omissions
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177) and index
