New Documentaries in Latin America

Ana M. López, Tulane University, USA Antonio Gómez, Tulane University, USA Ruth Goldberg, State University of New York, Empire College, USA Vinicius Navarro, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Cecilia Sayad, University of Kent, UK José Miguel Palacios, New York University, USA Amalia Córdova, New York University, USA Freya Schiwy, University of California, Riverside, USA Antonio Traverso, Curtin University, Australia Germán Liñero, Universidad de Viña del Mar, Chile Michael Chanan, Roehampton University, UK Susan Lord, Queen's University, Canada Zaira Zarza, Queen's University, Canada Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University, USA

"This is a collection of very insightful, well-informed, and compelling analyses authored by leading scholars in the field of Latin American documentary filmmaking. Theoretically engaged with rigorous contextualization, New Documentaries in Latin America provides an important contribution to a growing field within Latin American Film Studies." - Miriam Haddu, Senior Lecturer, Mexican Visual Culture, University of London, UK, and author of Contemporary Mexican Cinema, 1989-1999: History, Space, and Identity "Compelling and far-reaching, New Documentaries in Latin America provides a much-needed examination of the astounding documentary output of Latin America in the past three decades. The volume's wide-ranging essays offer nuanced perspectives on important and innovative documentary makers in the region that include established filmmakers like Patricio Guzman and Eduardo Coutinho; lesser-knowns like Karen Rossi and Susana Barriga; and media collectives like Chile's Camara en Mano and Mexico's Mal de Ojo TV. The breadth of practices covered invites an updating of previous histories of documentary in Latin America and expands our understanding of the use of video by activist and community organizations, indigenous groups, and regionally focused production arrangements." - Cristina Venegas, University of California, Santa Barbara, 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, ANDTRANSNATIONAL 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