Documentary filmmaking in contemporary Brazil : cinematic archives of the present /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190867058 0190867051 9780190867041 0190867043 |