Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America (Studies of the Americas)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Part I: Latin American Perspectives......Page 16
1 Introduction: Fiction, Documentary, and Cultural Change in Latin America......Page 18
2 The Space between Fiction and Documentary in Latin American Cinema: Notes toward a Genealogy......Page 30
Part II: Revolution and Its Specters......Page 40
3 On the Margins of Reality: Fiction, Documentary, and Marginal Subjectivity in Three Early Cuban Revolutionary Films......Page 42
4 Cuban Documentary: Synergy and Its Discontents......Page 64
5 O sertão nao virou mar: Images of Violence and the Position of the Spectator in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema......Page 82
Part III: Crossing Borders, Crossing Genres......Page 100
6 Cofralandes: A Formative Space for Chilean Identity......Page 102
7 Aunt Juana’s Shop, or Reality as Metaphor, in María Novaro’s El jardín del Edén......Page 120
8 Mockumentary as Post-nationalism: National Identity in A Day without a Mexican by Sergio Arau......Page 134
Part IV: Performance and Reflexivity in the Contemporary Documentary......Page 146
9 Between Image and Word: Minority Discourses and Community Construction in Eduardo Coutinho’s Documentaries......Page 148
10 Characters and Conflict: Dramatic Structure in Three Mexican Documentaries......Page 166
11 Whodunnit?: In Search of the Real/Reel (and Imagined) Aro Tolbukhin in Aro Tolbukhin: En la mente del asesino......Page 178
Part V: Questions of Reference......Page 192
12 Filming Psychoanalysis: The Documentation of Paranoia and the “Paranoid Gaze” in Luis Buñuel’s Él......Page 194
13 Digital Mimicry and Visual Tropes: Some Images from Argentina......Page 212
14 Dereferencing the Real: Documentary Mediascapes in the Films of Carlos Marcovich (¿Quién diablos es Juliette? and Cuatro labios)......Page 234
15 Documenting Urban Fictions in Contemporary Argentine Film: Notes on Pablo Trapero’s El bonaerense......Page 252
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