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    "pk": 37820,
    "title": "A Family Business: Chile and the Transition to Democracy in Alberto Fuguet’s Se arrienda",
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    "abstract": "Alberto Fuguet’s film \nSe arrienda\n (Chile, 2005)\n \ndepicts a landmark era in Chile’s history: the Transition to Democracy (1988-2004). In this article, I argue that Fuguet’s film represents Chile during the Transition to Democracy through the lenses of culture and economics. I maintain that the film’s dual temporal structure; polysemous title; and epigraph from L.P. Hartley’s coming-of-age novel \nThe Go-Between \n(1953) establish its allegorical qualities. Additionally, I analyze three facets of the film which are central to the film’s representation of Chile during the Transition: the 1988 Human Rights Now! concert in Mendoza; the relationship between Gastón and his father; the marginalized character of Chernovsky. First, I argue that the film’s representation of the Human Rights Now! concert reflects the collective optimism and solidarity at the beginning of the Transition. Second, I maintain that the relationship between Gastón and his father embodies “family capitalism” (\nHierarchical Capitalism \n47). Finally, I argue that the portrayal of Chernovsky’s descent into poverty and isolation reflects the entrenched socio-economic inequality and limited social safety net in Transition-era Chile.",
    "language": "en",
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        {
            "first_name": "Ezekiel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Trautenberg",
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            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2018-01-30T23:46:27Z",
    "date_accepted": "2018-01-30T23:46:27Z",
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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