The project follows the global history of Chilean filmmakers who were forced into exile during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, which lasted from 1973 to 1990.<\/p>\n
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Jos\u00e9 Miguel Palacios said he was pleasantly surprised by the large turnout for the book launch event on Nov. 6 at the campus library.\u00a0 Palacios said the book took about 15 to develop.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of Bethany Price.<\/p>\n
His book is the first comprehensive study of that specific Latin American film movement, focusing on the network of solidarity that kept Chilean cinema alive across borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The project began during Palacios\u2019 doctoral research.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe writing of the book kept me busy for the past five years, but the project began 15 years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was still not much knowledge about this phenomenon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His book follows Chilean filmmakers who were exiled to Canada, Sweden, Mozambique, Venezuela, the United States and beyond. <\/p>\n
Because their stories were dispersed across continents, much of the research required digging through personal and institutional archives from different countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of these materials have been forgotten or silenced,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jeong noted the significance of this recovery for the Latin American film field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cChilean cinema has not been well-advertised or promoted in the world of cinema studies,\u201d Jeong said. \u201cEven within Latin American cinema, the major references were Argentinian, Brazilian, Bolivian, not Chilean.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jeong emphasized that the information in Palacios\u2019 book extends beyond national cinema, as many of the filmmakers featured in the book worked outside Chile and contributed to film collections in other countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is the concept of nation in this case? This is at the borderline between national cinema and transnational cinema,\u201d Jeong said. \u201c[The work is] very sensitive to the danger of nationalism\u2026 even though he wants to write a book about Chilean cinema. That\u2019s the dilemma.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
At CSULB, Palacios teaches transnational cinemas and Latin American film, among other subjects, but students say his impact extends beyond his courses. <\/p>\n
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Jose Miguel Palacios, an assistant professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at CSULB, pictured on Nov. 19. During the upcoming Spring 2026 semester, Palacios will be teaching CINE 365 \u2013 Cinemas of Rebellion and Resistance, CINE 388A \u2013 European Cinemas and CINE 490 \u2013 Special Topics in Cinematic Arts.\u00a0 Charlotte LoCicero | Long Beach Current<\/p>\n
Jimena Meza Gonzales, a film production major, credits Jeong with helping shape her academic confidence. Even though she\u2019s not in his class this semester, she said Palacios still checks in on her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI had him for Film History 1 [CINE \u200b\u200b201], but I felt I learned more from him than the actual class,\u201d Gonzales said. \u201cHe was really a support system for me, and helped me find resources.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gonzales said seeing his book published only reinforced her admiration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s accomplished as an academic, and he really cares about his students,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Palacios, studying exile cinema meant examining how artists pushed past borders to create political and artistic alliances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSolidarity creates these bonds despite our linguistic, cultural [and] national differences,\u201d he said. \u201cIt enables us to have a more global history.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He argues that the history of exile did not end with the fall of the dictatorship. Many artists never returned to Chile, and their children and grandchildren continue exploring themes of displacement to this day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe live in a world ruled by social explosion and displacement,\u201d Palacios said. \u201cNewer generations have found value in these histories of solidarity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Palacios brings this global and political approach to the university through courses such as Cinemas of Rebellion and Resistance.<\/p>\n
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Jos\u00e9 Miguel Palacios showcases a clip from a Latin American film during his Nov. 6 book launch for his non-fiction work, \u201cTransnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973.\u201d Photo courtesy of Paige Paulsen<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything I do is connected to a more politicized understanding of filmmaking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Jeong said his presence strengthens the department. \u201cHe has been my best colleague and friend.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Palacipos will present his research at Tulane University this December and travel to Barcelona for a retrospective on two filmmakers featured in his book.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He plans new archival research centered on exile and displacement, and seeing the campus respond so strongly to his book renewed his motivation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For students like Gonzales, the excitement is contagious.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s accomplished,\u201d she said. \u201cBut also, he\u2019s just a really good professor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Long Beach State film historian Jos\u00e9 Miguel Palacios arrived at the University Library for his book launch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-66948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}