Documentary filmmaking in contemporary Brazil : cinematic archives of the present

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

"Like Brazilian society, documentary filmmaking is undergoing transformation, becoming an increasingly inclusive and diverse field, intervening in the ongoing struggle for social justice and equal distribution of power. As the first English-language monograph to focus on this body of work, this...

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Main Author: Furtado, Gustavo Procopio (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Documentary films > Brazil > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Brazil.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Documentary films
Motion pictures > Social aspects
Brazil
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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