Listening to Others : Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary Cinema / edited by Natalia Brizuela and Krista Brune.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brizuela, Natalia, editor.

Brune, Krista, 1984- editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American cinema.

SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Brazil--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Coutinho, Eduardo, 1933-2004--Criticism and interpretation.

Coutinho, Eduardo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Listening to Others in Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary Cinema

Notes

Works Cited

Part I. Media Ecologies

1. Coutinho's Ecology: Space, Place, and the Disappearing Location 19

"De fora para dentro": ethnography and the journey-form

"De dentro para fora": testimony and the crisis of place

2. Returning to the Sertão in the Films of Eduardo Coutinho

The sertanejo in Cinema Novo: Vidas secas and Deus e o diabo na terra do sol

Coutinho's sertão: Cabra marcado para morrer and O fim e o princípio

Why Return to the sertão?

3. The Audiovisual Record and the Corporeal Present: Another Dialogue in Eduardo Coutinho's Cinema of Conversation

Participant Reflexivity: A First-Person Cinema of the Other

Diachronic Image/Body Encounters and Archival Thresholds

Conclusion

Part II. Politics and the Documentary Image

4. From CPC to Videofilmes: Eduardo Coutinho's Trajectory as a Political Filmmaker

Coutinho's Early Years: Political Engagement with the CPC

Globo Repórter as Coutinho's Documentary School

A Masterpiece and Some Experiments: The Years of Cabra marcado and CECIP

The Videofilmes Collaborations and the Maturation of Coutinho's Style

Concluding Thoughts

5. Cinema of/as Garbage: Eduardo Coutinho's Politics of Image from Jogo de cena to Boca de lixo

Jogo de cena: A Non-illustrative Image and a Dispossessed Subjectivity

A Spectral Presence

Boca de lixo: From the Image of Garbage to the Image as Garbage

Portraits and Names

The Pensive Image

Image and Politics: The Image as Garbage

6. Eduardo Coutinho and Globo Repórter: Between Social Documentary and the Mass Media in Dictatorship-Era Brazil.

Globo Repórter: Institutional Origins, Opportunities, and Constraints

Eduardo Coutinho at Globo Repórter

Coutinho's Telefilms: Circulation, Reception, Afterlives

Part III. Performing the Self and Others

7. Um dia na vida: Copy, Enunciation, Chatter

A Cinema of the Spoken Word

A Mosaic of Infinite Facts

Language, Potential

Note

8. To Act or to Act: Present, Presence, and Representation in Eduardo Coutinho's Jogo de cena

Who's There?

Person, Persona

Fiction's Back Door

9. Song, Self, and Sound in Eduardo Coutinho's Cinema

The Search of a Voice: Cabra marcado para morrer

Song and Self: From Boca de lixo to As canções

Listening to Images: The Echo of the Subject and the Acoustic Unconscious

Part IV. On Time and Endings

10. Open Futures: On Ends and Endings in the Conversational Documentaries of Eduardo Coutinho and Errol Morris

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III.

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V.

VI.

11. Parting Glances: The Posthumous Coutinho

The Beginning of the End

Taking Care of Appearance

The Personagem Appears

The Transitive Politics of Cine-Catalysis

12. The Right Moment: Kairos and the Documentary Cinema of Eduardo Coutinho

The Right Moment

The Occasion and the Archive

Performance and Artifice

Kairos and Ethics in Coutinho's Cinema

Part V. Coutinho in His Own Words (translations by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux)

Introduction

13. Gaze in Documentary: Statement/Letter to Paulo Paranaguá

14. The Melancholy of Twilight

15. A Latin Hollywood in Search of Markets

The Mechanisms

Rumbas and Villains

The First Crack

16. A Chess Match Between Death and the Knight

Darkness and Blood.

Play and Screenplay

The Angel and the Knight

Visions and Dreams

Part VI. Critical Insights from Coutinho's Contemporaries (translations by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux)

17. On the Film That Never Was

18. Brazil by Our Own Selves

19. Mouth Full of Trash

20. Victory Over the Ash Heap of History 341

Note [2003]

21. Jogo de cena

The Documentary Boom (July 31, 2009)

Moscou (August 6, 2009)

Moscou 2 (August 12, 2009)

Eduardo Coutinho &amp

Sophie Calle-2 (August 13, 2009)

Luiz Ruffato (February 26, 2010)

Coutinho &amp

Paul Ricoeur

Jogo de cena 2 (August 26, 2011)

Notes [2013]

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4384-9790-3