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Post-Dictatorship Cinema - Secondary Reading
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aguilar on interpreting the film | “What is at issue here is not the memory of the narrative, but rather the value of the symbolic construction” |
| Aguilar on Juan's innocence | “Clandestine life blinds him and prevents him from seeing the real world” |
| Aguilar on comparing Juan to Gaby | Constructed “child-like gaze” vs girl who is “placed in a sphere of ignorance and is a victim of the dictatorship in La historia oficial” |
| Foucault on the boundaries of "heterotopias" | “Heterotopias always presuppose a system of opening and closing that both isolates them and makes them penetrable.” |
| Foucault on "heterotopic" spaces | “a kind of effectively enacted utopia” which exist alongside everyday society but operate under different rules |
| Kuhn on the home's purpose | “prime site for the negotiation of inner and outer worlds” |
| Kuhn on the home as fragile | “Where and what are the boundaries of ‘home’?” |
| Kuhn on the film's focus on thresholds and liminal spaces | “re-create the spaces of the child’s world as it were from the inside” |
| Aguilar on tension between politics and family | His parents are victims of state terror, but their son is a victim of their political choices |