Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780190867041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 276 str.

Gustavo Procopio Furtado

Recenzje

This book is eminently political. It tackles documentary filmmaking as a way of interfering in and changing society. Furtado has devised a tremendously original and effective method of understanding documentary making in Brazil as the construction of a huge archive where memory, history and culture combine in order to provide a reliable programme for a better future. For the first time, in this book, indigenous production is given pride of place alongside consecrated masterpieces, such as Eduardo Coutinho's 20 Years Later, João Moreira Salles's Santiago, and Adirley Queirós' recent documentary sci-fi Black Out, White In. With breathtaking erudition, attentive to both the detail and the broader picture, Furtado has given us a riveting and compelling vision of Brazil today. Brazilian politicians would have a lot to learn from it!

O autorze

Gustavo Procopio Furtado is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Latin American Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University where he teaches classes on Latin American literature and cinema. His research focuses on audiovisual production with special attention to documentary and ethnographic film traditions and to the intersections between aesthetics and politics.