{"pk":37820,"title":"A Family Business: Chile and the Transition to Democracy in Alberto Fuguet’s Se arrienda","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"Copyright","short_name":"Copyright","text":"","url":"https://escholarship.org/terms"},"keywords":[],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03b5j77g","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ezekiel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Trautenberg","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2018-01-30T18:46:27-05:00","date_accepted":"2018-01-30T18:46:27-05:00","date_published":"2015-12-31T19:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/mester/article/37820/galley/28500/download/"}]}