Uneasy social and psychological landscapes in the cinemas of Chile and New Zealand
| Autor: | Walescka Pino-Ojeda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
business.industry Communication media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Social environment Gender studies Colonialism Movie theater Motion pictures--Social aspects Family relations Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) State (polity) Natural (music) Narrative Sociology business media_common |
| DOI: | 10.17613/m6z79n |
| Popis: | Distinct modes of social and psychological angst are noted in a significant number of films from Chile and New Zealand, becoming most evident in the way family relations are portrayed, and in various modes through which the protagonists relate to their natural and social environment. This article focuses on the films In My Father’s Den (Brad McGann, New Zealand, 2004) and B-Happy (Gonzalo Justiniano, Chile, 2003). The narrative of both these films centres on lower-middle-class adolescent girls who reside in semi-rural areas, living in a state of unease due to the difficulties they confront in finding social and familial protection, which drives them to yearn and search for alternative geographical, cultural and affective landscapes. This comparative examination suggests that the crisis of identity displacement observed in New Zealand society engenders more tragic results than those gestated by the ‘concrete’ socio-economic exclusion found in Chile, indicating perhaps that sociopsychological anxieties require more complex and intricate strategies of recognition and eradication than those created by structural forms of social abuse. |
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