New Documentaries in Latin America

Nonfiction cinema in Latin America has undergone remarkable changes in the last thirty years. Documentary film was part of the ambitious movements that helped shape the region's cinematic landscape half a century ago, and it has for many years influenced socially committed filmmaking worldwide. The past three decades have taken this tradition in new directions. In this volume, contributors highlight the significance of recent Latin American documentaries and explore contrasts and parallels with works made in previous decades. Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking.

Vinicius Navarro is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
 
Juan Carlos Rodríguez is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Introduction
PART I: AESTHETICS AND POLITICS
1. A Poetics of the Trace; Ana M. López
2. First-Person Documentary and the New Political Subject: Enunciation, Recent History, and the Present in New Argentine Cinema; Antonio Gómez
3. Under the Surface of the Image: Cultural Narrative, Symbolic Landscapes, and National Identity in the Films of Jorge de Léon and Armando Capó; Ruth Goldberg
4. Performance in Brazilian Documentaries; Vinicius Navarro
5. Narrative, Visibility, and Trauma in Bus 174; Cecilia Sayad
6. Residual Images and Political Time: Memory and History in Chile, Obstinate Memory and City of Photographers; José Miguel Palacios
PART II: COMMUNITY AND INDIGENOUS MEDIA
7. Reenact, Reimagine: Performative Indigenous Documentaries of Bolivia and Brazil; Amalia Córdova
8. An Other Documentary is Possible: Indy Solidarity Video and Aesthetic Politics; Freya Schiwy
9. Chilean Political Documentary Video of the 1980s; Antonio Traverso and Germán Liñero
PART III: LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND TRANSNATIONAL DIALOGUES
10. Bolivia in View; Michael Chanan
11. Intimate Spaces and Migrant Imaginaries: Sandra Gómez, Susana Barriga, and Heidi Hassan; Susan Lord and Zaira Zarza
12. Documentary on Wheels: Car Culture in Karen Rossi's Isla Chatarra; Juan Carlos Rodríguez
13. Rasquache Mockumentary: Alex Rivera's Why Cybraceros?; Debra A. Castillo