New Documentaries in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781137291332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 287 str.

Vinicius Navarro; Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Opis

Nonfiction cinema in Latin America has undergone remarkable changes in the last thirty years. Documentary film was part of the ambitious movements that helped shape the region's cinematic landscape half a century ago, and it has for many years influenced s

Recenzje

"The sure-footed and historically aware manner in which the thirteen contributions home in on their specific topics while panning out to highlight broader regional and historical concerns means that this collection is illuminating and insightful, with much to commend it to novices and specialists alike." (David Conlon, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, Vol. 2 (1), April, 2018)

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: AESTHETICS AND POLITICS 1. A Poetics of the Trace; Ana M. López 2. First-Person Documentary and the New Political Subject: Enunciation, Recent History, and the Present in New Argentine Cinema; Antonio Gómez 3. Under the Surface of the Image: Cultural Narrative, Symbolic Landscapes, and National Identity in the Films of Jorge de Léon and Armando Capó; Ruth Goldberg 4. Performance in Brazilian Documentaries; Vinicius Navarro 5. Narrative, Visibility, and Trauma in Bus 174 ; Cecilia Sayad 6. Residual Images and Political Time: Memory and History in Chile, Obstinate Memory and City of Photographers ; José Miguel Palacios PART II: COMMUNITY AND INDIGENOUS MEDIA 7. Reenact, Reimagine: Performative Indigenous Documentaries of Bolivia and Brazil; Amalia Córdova 8. An Other Documentary is Possible: Indy Solidarity Video and Aesthetic Politics; Freya Schiwy 9. Chilean Political Documentary Video of the 1980s; Antonio Traverso and Germán Liñero PART III: LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND TRANSNATIONAL DIALOGUES 10. Bolivia in View; Michael Chanan 11. Intimate Spaces and Migrant Imaginaries: Sandra Gómez, Susana Barriga, and Heidi Hassan; Susan Lord and Zaira Zarza 12. Documentary on Wheels: Car Culture in Karen Rossi's Isla Chatarra ; Juan Carlos Rodríguez 13. Rasquache Mockumentary: Alex Rivera's Why Cybraceros ?; Debra A. Castillo

O autorze

Ana M. López, Tulane University, USA Antonio Gómez, Tulane University, USA Ruth Goldberg, State University of New York, Empire College, USA Vinicius Navarro, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Cecilia Sayad, University of Kent, UK José Miguel Palacios, New York University, USA Amalia Córdova, New York University, USA Freya Schiwy, University of California, Riverside, USA Antonio Traverso, Curtin University, Australia Germán Liñero, Universidad de Viña del Mar, Chile Michael Chanan, Roehampton University, UK Susan Lord, Queen's University, Canada Zaira Zarza, Queen's University, Canada Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University, USA