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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255310203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-49523-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

791.436098

Soggetti

Latin America—Politics and government

Motion pictures, American

Ethnology—Latin America

Documentary films

Cultural studies

Latin American Politics

Latin American Cinema and TV

Latin American Culture

Documentary

Cultural Studies

Latino Culture

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium / María Guadalupe Arenills and Michael J. Lazzara -- ; pt. I The Subjective Turn and Beyond. What Remains of Third Cinema? / Michael J. Lazzara ; Andrés Di Tella and Argentine Documentary Film / Jorge Ruffinelli ; Displacing the "I": Uses of the First Person in Recent Argentine Biographical Documentaries / Antonio Gómez ; The "Mobility Turn" in Contemporary Latin American First-Person Documentary / Pablo Piedras ; The Politics-Commodity: The Rise of Mexican Commercial Documentary in the Neoliberal Era / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado ; 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. Ethnobiographic Encounters and Interculturalism: New Modes of Reflexivity in Contemporary Documentaries from Argentina / Joanna Page ; Performance, Reflexivity, and the Languages of History in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary Film / Jens Andermann ; A Common Gaze: Reflections on New Documentary Practices in Peru / Talía Dajes and Sofía Velázquez ; Audiovisual Affect: Sexuality and the Public Sphere in the Work of Colombia's Escuela Audiovisual al Borde / Marta Cabrera ; Capturing the "Real" in Panama's Canal Ghettos / Emily F. Davidson -- ; pt. III Performing Truth: Memory Politics and Documentary Filmmaking. Beyond Autobiography: Rethinking Documentary Production by the Children of the Disappeared / María Laura Lattanzi ; Caught Off Guard at the Crossroads of Ideology and Affect: Documentary Films by the Daughters of Revolutionaries / Bernardita Llanos ; Filming Responsibly: Ethnicity, Community, and the Nation in Ana Lucía Cuevas's El eco del dolor de mucha gente / Valeria Grinberg Pla ; Toward a Nondiscursive Turn in Argentine Documentary Film / María Guadalupe Arenillas.

Sommario/riassunto

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.ont>.