Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking

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The Aesthetics of Trauma

Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo (CY Cergy Paris Université, France), Lúcia Nagib, Julian Ross (Leiden University Netherlands)

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Bloomsbury Academic
11 December 2025

Film theory & criticism; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship

Series: World Cinema

This book explores how the generation of filmmakers born in the aftermath of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) use cinema to navigate and narrate the complex legacies of their country's turbulent past.

Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo examines the work of the Novísimo Cine Chileno, providing close readings of key films such as Fernando Guzzoni’s Carne de Perro (2013),Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s La Casa Lobo (2018), Manuela Martelli’s 1976 (2022), and Pablo Larraín’s El Conde (2023). She identifies a recurring trope of blurred boundaries within these films – whether between right and wrong, past and present, fiction and reality, or a blending of genre conventions, – which disorients the viewer and resists any singular understanding of the film. She argues that this disorientation pushes the audience into a more active and critical mode of spectatorship.

Drawing on psychoanalytical theory and political philosophy, she goes on to explore how the aesthetic choices within these films are reflective of an uneasy relationship to Chile's traumatic past. Labelling these the 'aesthetics of trauma', she argues that they challenge official histories and raise broader questions about memory, trauma, and ethical representation in post-dictatorial societies.

By: Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo (CY Cergy Paris Université France)
Edited by: Lúcia Nagib, Julian Ross (Leiden University Netherlands)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781350528024
ISBN 10: 1350528021
Series: World Cinema
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. A crisis of meaning 2. “Unrepresentable” trauma 3. Sensory images 4. Social isolation 5. Escaping in fantasy 6. The protests of 2019: a turning point? Bibliography Index

Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo is a research assistant at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She completed her PhD in Film and TV Studies (University of Warwick) and in Hispanic Studies (CY Cergy Paris Université) in 2022.