Documentary filmmaking in contemporary Brazil : cinematic archives of the present

Summary: "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 book examines the ways in which contemporary documentaries explore the borders between centers and margins, visibilities and invisibilities, silences and speech, and forms of authority and their contestation. Centered on an eclectic cluster of documentaries -from ethnographic documentaries and indigenous videos to films concerned with social and criminal justice, including first-person, essayistic films - this book brings into view the transformations of both Brazilian society and filmmaking, ultimately examining the genre's preoccupation with archival content"--

Record details

ISBN: 0190867043
ISBN: 9780190867041
ISBN: 0190867051
ISBN: 9780190867058
Physical Description: viii, 265 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.