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--Résumé de l'éditeur Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Fiction, Documentary, and Cultural Change in Latin America....Pages 3-13 The Space between Fiction and Documentary in Latin American Cinema: Notes toward a Genealogy....Pages 15-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 On the Margins of Reality: Fiction, Documentary, and Marginal Subjectivity in Three Early Cuban Revolutionary Films....Pages 27-48 Cuban Documentary: Synergy and Its Discontents....Pages 49-65 O sertão nao virou mar: Images of Violence and the Position of the Spectator in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema....Pages 67-84 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Cofralandes: A Formative Space for Chilean Identity....Pages 87-103 Aunt Juana’s Shop, or Reality as Metaphor, in María Novaro’s El jardín del Edén....Pages 105-118 Mockumentary as Post-nationalism: National Identity in A Day without a Mexican by Sergio Arau....Pages 119-130 Front Matter....Pages 131-131 Between Image and Word: Minority Discourses and Community Construction in Eduardo Coutinho’s Documentaries....Pages 133-150 Characters and Conflict: Dramatic Structure in Three Mexican Documentaries....Pages 151-161 Whodunnit? In Search of the Real/Reel (and Imagined) Aro Tolbukhin in Aro Tolbukhin: En la mente del asesino....Pages 163-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Filming Psychoanalysis: The Documentation of Paranoia and the “Paranoid Gaze” in Luis Buñuel’s Él....Pages 179-196 Digital Mimicry and Visual Tropes: Some Images from Argentina....Pages 197-217 Dereferencing the Real: Documentary Mediascapes in the Films of Carlos Marcovich (¿Quién diablos es Juliette? and Cuatro labios)....Pages 219-236 Documenting Urban Fictions in Contemporary Argentine Film: Notes on Pablo Trapero’s El bonaerense....Pages 237-250 Back Matter....Pages 251-257 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--Résumé de l'éditeur