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Latency, Biopolitics and the Reproductive Arena: An Alternative Masculinity in Ricardo Larraín's La frontera

In the Chilean film La frontera (1991), the dissident Ramiro is condemned to internal exile (relegación) under Pinochet's regime. My reading of the film is informed by three theories: I argue that this punishment is an act of Johan Galtung's 'structural violence' against Ramiro&#...

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Published in:	Bulletin of Latin American research 2013-10, Vol.32 (4), p.438-450
Main Author:	THAKKAR, AMIT
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Subjects:	biopolitics Chile Chilean film Cinema dictatorship exile Foucault, Michel La frontera Larraín, Ricardo Latin American history Masculinity Military regimes Motion picture criticism Political Defection Political exile Punishment Reconstruction Regime transition reproductive arena Special Issue Articles Violence Visual communication
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description	In the Chilean film La frontera (1991), the dissident Ramiro is condemned to internal exile (relegación) under Pinochet's regime. My reading of the film is informed by three theories: I argue that this punishment is an act of Johan Galtung's 'structural violence' against Ramiro's masculinity, that strategies of 'hiding' individual bodies for the sake of the 'social body' are relevant to biopolitics (Michel Foucault), and that La frontera exploits the formal potential of latency to reveal how Ramiro rebuilds his masculinity within what Raewyn Connell would term the 'reproductive arena'. Ramiro's resulting, alternative masculinity represents a challenge for the reconstruction of post-Pinochet Chile.
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