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

This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production, distribution, and marketing. 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 B......Page 266 D......Page 267 G......Page 268 M......Page 269 O......Page 270 S......Page 271 Z......Page 272 This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. The themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production, distribution and marketing