Peruvian Cinema in Dispute: Radical Right Wing in Digital Media against Documentaries of Recent History

Chumpitazi M.G.D. · Letras (Peru) (2024) · DOI: 10.30920/letras.95.141.10

Resumen

From the analysis of discourse, this article breaks down a group of opinion articles published in digital media in relation to the situation of Peruvian cinema in the context of the discussion of a bill that emerged from a radical right-wing movement. These discourses, elaborated by authors of diverse branches outside the cin-ematographic environment, express a position within a broader imaginary of the radical right in relation to a social function of cinema. The “cultural battle” becomes a narrative of opposition, where diverse expressions of the artistic and cultural sphere are assumed as “aggres-sions” or as antagonists to be fought. The figure of the adversary to be eliminated is embodied in four docu-mentaries: La Revolución y la Tierra; Hugo Blanco, río profundo; El viaje de Javier Heraud; and Rojo profun-do, partially financed with public funds and dealing with four figures of recent history associated with the internal armed conflict. From the application of some categories proposed by Halliday, a unified discourse is confirmed, generating a versus between the interests of cinema and its own conception of citizenship, with the purpose of discrediting or annulling the expressive proposals of the mentioned films.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos