Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), viii, 265 pp.
Contains filmography pp. 243-246, bibliogr. pp. 247-261, index
ISBN 978-0-19-086708-9; 978-0-19-086704-1
Signature commbox: 212:50-General 2019
"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." (Publisher description)
Introduction, 1
I. ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE INDIGENOUS
1 Feverish Archives, Feverish Films: Ethnographic Documentary and Crisis at Amazonian Contact Zones, 23
2 Reparative Mediations: Indigeneity, Videomaking, and the Future of the Ethnographic Archive, 51
II. LAW, EVIDENCE, CAPTURE
3 Scenes of Capture in the City: Documentary on the Margins of Social and Archival Visibilities, 85
4 Tactics of the Invisible, Shadow Archives: Resistance and Filmmaking on the Outskirts of Brasilia, 113
III. PRIVATE LIFE (GOING PUBLIC)
5 Homes, Archives, and Archons: Reworking the "Home Mode" in the Contemporary Documentary, 143
6 The Melancholy Subject of History: Intimate Films and the Inheritance of Postdictatorship Memory, 173
Epilogue, 203
I. ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE INDIGENOUS
1 Feverish Archives, Feverish Films: Ethnographic Documentary and Crisis at Amazonian Contact Zones, 23
2 Reparative Mediations: Indigeneity, Videomaking, and the Future of the Ethnographic Archive, 51
II. LAW, EVIDENCE, CAPTURE
3 Scenes of Capture in the City: Documentary on the Margins of Social and Archival Visibilities, 85
4 Tactics of the Invisible, Shadow Archives: Resistance and Filmmaking on the Outskirts of Brasilia, 113
III. PRIVATE LIFE (GOING PUBLIC)
5 Homes, Archives, and Archons: Reworking the "Home Mode" in the Contemporary Documentary, 143
6 The Melancholy Subject of History: Intimate Films and the Inheritance of Postdictatorship Memory, 173
Epilogue, 203
