Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium / María Guadalupe Arenillas, Michael J. Lazzara, Editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arenillas, María G., editor.

Lazzara, Michael J., 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Latin America--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--21st century.

Latin America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Summary:

This book highlights the richness and heterogeneity of Latin American documentary film, deepening debates on salient themes. It addresses the "subjective turn" of the 1990s and 2000s and the move beyond it; the ethics of the encounter between the filmmaker and the subject/object of his or her gaze; and the performance of truth and memory, a particularly urgent topic as Latin American countries have transitioned from dictatorship to democracy. Nearly two decades into the new millennium, Latin American documentary film is experiencing renewed vibrancy and visibility on the global stage. While elements of the combative, politicized cinema of the 1960s and 1970s remain, the region's production has become increasingly subjective, reflexive, and experimental; it both responds to and shapes global tendencies in the genre. This book broadens understanding of it by surveying a range of national contexts, styles, and practices.--Publisher description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium / Michael J. Lazzara

pt. I The Subjective Turn and Beyond

2. What Remains of Third Cinema? / Michael J. Lazzara

3. Andres Di Tella and Argentine Documentary Film / Jorge Ruffinelli

4. Displacing the "I": Uses of the First Person in Recent Argentine Biographical Documentaries / Antonio Gomez

5. The "Mobility Turn" in Contemporary Latin American First-Person Documentary / Pablo Piedras

6. The Politics-Commodity: The Rise of Mexican Commercial Documentary in the Neoliberal Era / Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado

7. Where Are the "People"?: The Politics of the Virtual and the Ordinary in Contemporary Brazilian Documentaries / Gustavo Procopio Furtado

pt. II The Ethics of Encounter

8. Ethnobiographic Encounters and Interculturalism: New Modes of Reflexivity in Contemporary Documentaries from Argentina / Joanna Page

9. Performance, Reflexivity, and the Languages of History in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary Film / Jens Andermann

10. A Common Gaze: Reflections on New Documentary Practices in Peru / Sofia Velazquez

11. Audiovisual Affect: Sexuality and the Public Sphere in the Work of Colombia's Escuela Audiovisual al Borde / Marta Cabrera

12. Capturing the "Real" in Panama's Canal Ghettos / Emily F. Davidson

pt. III Performing Truth: Memory Politics and Documentary Filmmaking

13. Beyond Autobiography: Rethinking Documentary Production by the Children of the Disappeared / Maria Laura Lattanzi

14. Caught Off Guard at the Crossroads of Ideology and Affect: Documentary Films by the Daughters of Revolutionaries / Bernardita Llanos

15. Filming Responsibly: Ethnicity, Community, and the Nation in Ana Lucia Cuevas's El eco del dolor de mucha gente / Valeria Grinberg Pla

16. Toward a Nondiscursive Turn in Argentine Documentary Film / Maria Guadalupe Arenillas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137495228

1137495227

OCLC:

934193978

Publisher Number:

99971565832