Sitiados y la reescritura del pasado en clave identitaria

Abstract

This text analyzes the first season of television series Sitiados (co-produced by Fox International Channels, the Chilean independent production company Promocine and Television Nacional de Chile) considering three areas: Communication Strategy, Narrativity / Seriality, Televisuality and Hermeneutical Interpretation. The series, produced in the context of the commemoration of Chile s Bicentennial, is historically set on the besiege of\xa0 Spanish colonial town of Villarrica, located in southern Chile. This event took place between 1599 and 1602 and was carried out by the Mapuche people who wanted to force the conquerors out of their territories. The analysis proposed breaks a series of myths or canonical discourses around the colonial period, the Arauco War and the relations between Spanish settlers and native peoples, skillfully moving in its dialogue between the past and the present.Thus, a more nuanced and complex reading of how Chileans` identity was constructed is proposed from the present, opposite to the more established classical versions. The production, content, character construction and story is also rich to enable exploring different and complex representations of gender.