When fiction anticipates reality. Television fiction in Chile (2012-2018)

Abstract

On October 18, 2019, the Chilean social outbreak was unleashed, which exposed the crisis of the neoliberal model established by the dictatorship. During 30 years of democratic transition, he managed the socioeconomic model, however, during this time profound social conflicts, new political forces, and economic inequalities were made invisible by the power elites were nesting. Serial television fiction - broadcast during the second decade of 2000 - proposed realistic narratives about the recent political history of Chile, opening spaces for discussion on the conflictive areas of the neoliberal model and showing new political actors through fiction. To learn about the characters and conflicts against neoliberalism that characterize the Chilean fiction series of the last decade, we analyze four Chilean audiovisual fictions that received state subsidies and that are inspired by real events that occurred during the post-dictatorship period: El Reemplazante (2012), Juana Brava, políticamente incorrecta (2015), Zamudio: perdidos en la noche (2015) y La cacería: las niñas de Alto Hospicio (2018). In these productions, the traces of social unrest that had been accumulating for years during the democratization process and that erupted in a serious social crisis in October are discovered.