Listening to Others: Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary Cinema (Suny Latin American Cinema)

Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Listening to Others in Eduardo Coutinho’s Documentary Cinema Notes Works Cited Part I. Media Ecologies 1. Coutinho’s Ecology: Space, Place, and the Disappearing Location 19 “De fora para dentro”: ethnography and the journey-form “De dentro para fora”: testimony and the crisis of place Notes Works Cited 2. Returning to the Sertão in the Films of Eduardo Coutinho The sertanejo in Cinema Novo: Vidas secas and Deus e o diabo na terra do sol Coutinho’s sertão: Cabra marcado para morrer and O fim e o princípio Why Return to the sertão? Notes Works Cited 3. The Audiovisual Record and the Corporeal Present: Another Dialogue in Eduardo Coutinho’s Cinema of Conversation Participant Reflexivity: A First-Person Cinema of the Other Diachronic Image/Body Encounters and Archival Thresholds Conclusion Notes Works Cited Part II. Politics and the Documentary Image 4. From CPC to Videofilmes: Eduardo Coutinho’s Trajectory as a Political Filmmaker Coutinho’s Early Years: Political Engagement with the CPC Globo Repórter as Coutinho’s Documentary School A Masterpiece and Some Experiments: The Years of Cabra marcado and CECIP The Videofilmes Collaborations and the Maturation of Coutinho’s Style Concluding Thoughts Notes Works Cited 5. Cinema of/as Garbage: Eduardo Coutinho’s Politics of Image from Jogo de cena to Boca de lixo Jogo de cena: A Non-illustrative Image and a Dispossessed Subjectivity A Spectral Presence Boca de lixo: From the Image of Garbage to the Image as Garbage Portraits and Names The Pensive Image Image and Politics: The Image as Garbage Notes Works Cited 6. Eduardo Coutinho and Globo Repórter: Between Social Documentary and the Mass Media in Dictatorship-Era Brazil Globo Repórter: Institutional Origins, Opportunities, and Constraints Eduardo Coutinho at Globo Repórter Coutinho’s Telefilms: Circulation, Reception, Afterlives Notes Works Cited Part III. Performing the Self and Others 7. Um dia na vida: Copy, Enunciation, Chatter A Cinema of the Spoken Word A Mosaic of Infinite Facts Language, Potential Note Works Cited 8. To Act or to Act: Present, Presence, and Representation in Eduardo Coutinho’s Jogo de cena Who’s There? Person, Persona Fiction’s Back Door Notes Works Cited 9. Song, Self, and Sound in Eduardo Coutinho’s Cinema The Search of a Voice: Cabra marcado para morrer Song and Self: From Boca de lixo to As canções Listening to Images: The Echo of the Subject and the Acoustic Unconscious Notes Works Cited Part IV. On Time and Endings 10. Open Futures: On Ends and Endings in the Conversational Documentaries of Eduardo Coutinho and Errol Morris I II. III. IV. V. VI. Notes Works Cited 11. Parting Glances: The Posthumous Coutinho The Beginning of the End Taking Care of Appearance The Personagem Appears The Transitive Politics of Cine-Catalysis Notes Works Cited 12. The Right Moment: Kairos and the Documentary Cinema of Eduardo Coutinho The Right Moment The Occasion and the Archive Performance and Artifice Kairos and Ethics in Coutinho’s Cinema Notes Works Cited Part V. Coutinho in His Own Words (translations by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux) Introduction Works Cited 13. Gaze in Documentary: Statement/Letter to Paulo Paranaguá 14. The Melancholy of Twilight Notes 15. A Latin Hollywood in Search of Markets The Mechanisms Rumbas and Villains The First Crack Note 16. A Chess Match Between Death and the Knight Darkness and Blood Play and Screenplay The Angel and the Knight Visions and Dreams Part VI. Critical Insights from Coutinho’s Contemporaries (translations by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux) Introduction Works Cited 17. On the Film That Never Was 18. Brazil by Our Own Selves 19. Mouth Full of Trash 20. Victory Over the Ash Heap of History 341 Note [2003] Note 21. Jogo de cena The Documentary Boom (July 31, 2009) Moscou (August 6, 2009) Moscou 2 (August 12, 2009) Eduardo Coutinho & Sophie Calle—2 (August 13, 2009) Eduardo Coutinho & Luiz Ruffato (February 26, 2010) Coutinho & Paul Ricoeur Jogo de cena 2 (August 26, 2011) Notes [2013] Contributors Index