Memory on film

Documentaries offer a unique insight into South America’s authoritarian trauma. Review: Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema, Tatiana Signorelli Heise, by Gavin O'Toole

Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema: Brazil, Chile and Argentina, Tatiana Signorelli Heise, 2024, Palgrave Macmillan

The darkest period in South American history was undoubtedly that of the military dictatorships between the 1960s and 80s.

The Southern Cone nations of Brazil, Chile and Argentina found themselves in the grip of brutal autho…