Transnational Memories and Post-Dictatorship Cinema

Tatiana Signorelli Heise is a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures. She has published on political cinema, trauma studies, documentary activism and the sociology of film. She is a frequent collaborator with the Havana-Glasgow Film Festival in Glasgow and the IberoDocs Festival in Edinburgh. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, an MA in the Sociology of Contemporary Culture from the University of York’s Sociology Department and an MPhil in the Sciences of Communication from the University of São Paulo. She has worked for an environmental and animal welfare organisation in the Amazon region of Brazil and has a prior career as a journalist in São Paulo.

• 1. Introduction: Cinemas of Memory.- 2. Frameworks for Remembering: Dictatorships and Transition in the Southern Cone.- 3. The Rise of the Witness: The Informative Mode of Remembering.- 4. How We Remember: The Reflective Mode of Remembering.- 5. The Screened Self: The Diaristic Mode of Remembering.- 6. Imagined Pasts, Possible Futures: The Playful Mode of Remembering.- 7. Conclusion.