New Documentaries in Latin America [electronic resource] /
Navarro, Vinicius.author.
Rodríguez, Juan Carlos.author.
Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking, among others.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Aesthetics and Politics; 1 A Poetics of the Trace; 2 First-Person Documentary and the New Political Subject: Enunciation, Recent History, and the Present in New Argentine Cinema; 3 Under the Surface of the Image: Cultural Narrative, Symbolic Landscapes, and National Identity in the Films of Jorge de León and Armando Capó; 4 Performance in Brazilian Documentaries ; 5 Narrative, Visibility, and Trauma in Bus 174
6 Residual Images and Political Time: Memory and History in Chile, Obstinate Memory and City of PhotographersPart II: Community and Indigenous Media; 7 Reenact, Reimagine: Performative Indigenous Documentaries of Bolivia and Brazil; 8 An Other Documentary Is Possible: Indy Solidarity Video and Aesthetic Politics; 9 Chilean Political Documentary Video of the 1980s; Part III: Local, National, and Transnational Dialogues; 10 Bolivia in View; 11 Intimate Spaces and Migrant Imaginaries: Sandra Gómez, Susana Barriga, and Heidi Hassan
12 Documentary on Wheels: Car Culture in Karen Rossi's Isla Chatarra13 Rasquache Mockumentary: Alex Rivera's Why Cybraceros?; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking, among others.
Motion pictures and television.
Documentary films.
Motion pictures—History.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Arts.
Performing arts.
Screen Studies.
Documentary.
Film History.
Latin American Culture.
Arts.
Performing Arts.