Cinematographic Censorship in the First Year of the Dictatorship. Chile, 1974 Restoration, Refundation and Legitimation [la Censura Cinematográfica en el Primer Año de la Dictadura. Chile, 1974 Restauración, Refundación y Legitimación]

This study seeks to identify and analyze the main changes that the military dictatorship imprinted on the Film Censorship Board in 1974, its first year in power. Through a survey of information in the press, archives of the CCC and the Ministry of Education, it was possible to outline the new orientation of the Board, the results of its film ratings and the reactions of distributors and public opinion. The text proposes that in its first months the dictatorship carried out a censorship restoration process by giving back the CCC the active role it had before the Salvador Allende government, at the same time that it gave it new guidelines, by installing a stricter and political-doctrinaire filtering criterion. Finally, a new law not only institutionalized this new severity, but also gave censorship a halo of legitimacy based on new institutional alliances. © 2021 Universidad de Talca. All rights reserved.