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Representation and memory in the archive images of Argentinian cinema on the Falkland War

Abstract

This essay offers a critical-interpretive examination of the ways in which archival images were deployed in last decade's Argentine feature films and documentaries about the Falklands War. We argue that the shortage of photographic and motion picture images of that war allowed not only to establish 'frames of war' (as per Judith Butler) that affected the population through the media's manipulation of events, but also set certain symbolic images that determined the social imaginary of the Falklands War. Therefore, we conclude that the intervention and critique of archival images, allows for updating and recreating the meaning of the representations and interpretations of the past, producing new meanings that redefine the frozen paradigms of the collective historical narrative.

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