Audiencia televisiva y memoria: estudio de caso de la ficción Los archivos del cardenal en Chile.

Introduction. Set during the Chilean military dictatorship, Los archivos del cardenal ("The Cardinal's Files") is a two-season-long fictional television series that was produced by Chile's public channel TVN and broadcast in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Objectives. This article examines the impact o...

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Publicado en:Revista Latina de Comunicación Social no. 73; pp. 688 - 700
Autor principal: Chamorro Maldonado, Miguel Alejandro
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social 2018
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Sumario:Introduction. Set during the Chilean military dictatorship, Los archivos del cardenal ("The Cardinal's Files") is a two-season-long fictional television series that was produced by Chile's public channel TVN and broadcast in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Objectives. This article examines the impact of the series' realistic depiction of the Chilean military dictatorship on audience's historical memory and perception of the recent past. Methods. The study is based on a focus group composed of twenty-eight viewers of the television series and the analysis of participants' discourses, performed from a cognitive and psychological perspective, within the framework of perceptive memory between real history and fiction. Conclusions. Viewers had the opportunity to talk about the contents of the fictional series and to evaluate the episodes as educational material to learn about the recent history of the country.