Notes towards a Discussion about the Relation between Film and History in Chilean Fiction Cinema

Abstract

The paper presents the first set of problems provided by project The History within the Chilean Fiction Film. Three main guidelines have been identified on literature about the relationship between film and history: 1. The study on film representations of historical facts, 2. The pedagogical uses of film to teach history, and 3. The validity of film as a source for historical research. These lines inscribed the main problems to be addressed by any researcher: Are both the film and historical discourse comparable to each other? How they make a plausible shape of real? Do they imply each other in their social practices? Our project will solve these issues through an analysis linking the discourses of the films considered with the current social discourses on Chilean historical facts.