New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema [electronic resource] : Reality Effects /
Andermann, J.editor.
Bravo, Á.editor.
Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-emergence of the real as a prime concern in contemporary Argentine and Brazilian film, and as a main reason for the acclaim both cinematographies have won among international audiences in recent years.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Cameralu cida; 2 Footprints: Risks and Challenges of Contemporary Argentine Cinema; 3 Documentary Cinema and the Return of What Was; 4 The Return of the Natural: Landscape, Nature and the Place of Fiction; 5 Beyond Reflexivity: Acting and Experience in Contemporary Argentine and Brazilian Cinema; 6 The Scene and the Inscription of the Real; 7 Global Periphery: Aesthetic and Cultural Margins in Brazilian Audiovisual Forms; 8 Exploding Buses: José Padilha and the Hijacking of Media
9 The Carandiru Massacre: Across the Mediatic Spectrum10 December's Other Scene: New Argentine Cinema and the Politics of 2001; 11 In Praise of Difficulty: Notes on Realism and Narration in Contemporary Argentine Cinema; 12 The Self as Other: Reality, Archive, and the Witness in Three Contemporary Latin American Films; 13 The Documentary: Between Reality and Fiction, between First and Third Person; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-emergence of the real as a prime concern in contemporary Argentine and Brazilian film, and as a main reason for the acclaim both cinematographies have won among international audiences in recent years.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—History.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Arts.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Latin American Culture.
Arts.