Documentary filmmaking in contemporary Brazil : cinematic archives of the present / Gustavo Procopio Furtado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furtado, Gustavo Procopio, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Brazil--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Brazil.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This work examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the present. Marked by significant efforts toward the democratization of Brazil's highly unequal society, this period also witnessed the documentary's rise to unprecedented vitality in quantity, quality, and diversity of production-including polished auteur films as well as rough-hewn collaborative works; films made in major metropolitan regions as well as in remote parts of the Amazon; intimate first-person documentaries as well as films that dive headfirst into struggles for social justice.

Contents:

Feverish archives, feverish films: Ethnographic documentary and crisis at Amazonian Contact Zones

Reparative mediations: Indigeneity, videomaking, and the future of the ethnographic archive

Scenes of capture in the city: Documentary on the margins of social and archival visibilities

Tactics of the invisible, shadow archives: Resistance and filmmaking on the outskirts of Brasilia

Homes, archives, and archons: Reworking the "home mode" in the contemporary documentary

The melancholy subject of history: Intimate films and the inheritance of postdictatorship memory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-086707-8

0-19-086708-6

0-19-086706-X