Private Narratives and Infant Views: Iconizing 1970s Militancy in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

This is the author's accepted manuscript, made available with the permission of the publisher.This article analyses the connections between the subjective turn in the representation of militancy, iconicity, and historical examination in Infancia clandestina, a recent Argentine film that portrays the 1970s armed struggle through a child’s lens. Breaking with the leading interpretation that praises the movie because of its original exposition of left-leaning violence, I contend that this coming-of-age story fits within a version of militancy that originated in the mid-1990s and that has become quite common since the advent of the Kirchner administration in 2003. This particular version relies on a privatized and archaic image of activism that is at the core of the global iconization of 1970s militancy. An analysis of the filmic use of an infant perspective and of anime-style cartoons illuminates how contemporary Argentine cinema both registers and participates in this iconizing process

Los sondeos y encuestas de opinión hallados en el archivo BANADE ¿un uso productivo de las tecnologías de gobierno por parte de la última dictadura militar argentina?

Surveys and opinion polls were systematically carried out by the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983), becoming the main source to comprehend public opinion. Governmental and military institutions with intelligence services focused on the population carried out polls on collective moods, produced reports on the “psychosocial situation”, and designed communication strategies as well as propaganda campaigns to revert the trend of negative opinion. This article analyzes opinion polls and surveys carried out in 1981, which have not been systematically studied yet. The polls and surveys can be found in the BANADE archives. These documents open a new dimension of analysis, which leads to the hypothesis that the last military dictatorship in Argentina governed not only through constant repression but also through a productive plan, as systematic as the suppressive plan, aiming at the regulation of behavior to achieve useful outcomes (compliance, support, obedience, etc.).Las encuestas y sondeos de opinión fueron sistemáticamente utilizadas por el último régimen militar argentino como su principal fuente de inteligibilidad de la opinión pública. A través del sondeo del ánimo social, realizado tanto por instituciones gubernamentales como castrenses dedicadas a producir inteligencia sobre la población, se realizaron informes de “situación psicosocial” y se sugirieron estrategias de comunicación y campañas de propaganda para revertir las tendencias negativas. En este artículo analizaremos encuestas y sondeos de opinión realizadas durante el año 1981, y que hasta el momento no fueron estudiadas sistemáticamente. Las hallamos en el archivo BANADE y exponen una nueva dimensión de análisis que nos permite afirmar que la última dictadura militar argentina, además de gobernar por medio de la represión continua, implementó un plan productivo igualmente sistemático a través del que buscó regular las conductas con el fin de generar efectos útiles (conductas de adhesión, apoyo, obediencia, etc.).Fil: Schenquer, Laura. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral; ArgentinaFil: Risler, Julia. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentin