Reality Shows in Chile, origin and road map. Historical-Communication Dialogues

Reality shows are TV programs which represent a format used in television nowadays; however, the observation practices of individual and/or group intimacy dates from thousands years ago. Sometimes this was driven by voyeurism or morbid fascination, some others, by the purpose of guarding, supervising and maintaining status quo. This work offers an alternative answer to the explanation of this type of TV program emergence and relates this appearance to a government procedure bound up with modern State terrorism which began at the end of the eighteenth century and has been recalled by different regimes until present days.

Angelina Muñiz: construcción de un “yo” fragmentado

En su condición de hija de exiliados españoles, Angelina Muñiz Huberman emprenderá un largo y doloroso periplo desde su nacimiento hasta la edad adulta para consumar el proceso de construcción de sí misma. Una lectura cruzada de Castillos en la tierra. Seudomemorias (1995) y Molinos sin viento (2001) nos muestra que, a través de la memoria, propia o colectiva, Muñiz intenta unir los pedazos para forjarse una identidad hecha de fragmentos.