Imaginaries of nation in the official and independent audiovisual production of Paraguay during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1968-1979)

Abstract

This study proposes to describe the imaginary of nation during the stronismo in a film corpus that represents the official and independent audiovisual production of Paraguay of 1968 – 1979, from a revision of the period that corresponds to the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954 - 1989) inside a wider context on a regional and global levels, the "long seventies". The methodology corresponds to an ethnographic approach and several devices were used such as participant observation, semi structured interviews, descriptions, symbolic analysis and context interpretation of audiovisual content, analysis of bibliographical, hemerographic and audiovisual sources. The conclusion is that during this period, a dispute field was configured between the imaginary of nation from the regime, represented by the official audiovisuals, and other opposite and alternative imaginary proposed by the audiovisual production of an incipient independent cinema.