Cámera lúcida / José Carlos Avellar -- Footprints: Risks and Achievements in New Argentine Cinema / David Oubiña. -- Part I: Returns of the real: re-enactment, memory, and the uncanny. Documentary Cinema and the Return of Past Events / Andréa França ; Re-Enactment and Transmission in Contemporary Cinema / Ivone Margulies ; The Return of the Natural: Landscape, Nature and the Place of Fiction / Edgardo Dieleke ; Beyond Reflexivity: Acting and Experience in León, Rejtman and Coutinho / Joanna Page ; The Scene and the Inscription of the Real / César Guimarães. -- Part II: Archives of the present. Global Periphery / Ivana Bentes ; Exploding Buses: José Padilha and the Hijacking of Media / Tom Cohen ; December's Other Scene: New Argentine Cinema and the Crisis of 2001 / Jens Andermann ; Archival Images - Memories of Labor: Citation, Recycling and Appropriation in Contemporary Argentine Cinema / Mariano Mestman ; In Praise of Difficulty: Notes on Realism and Narrative in Contemporary Argentine Film / Domin Choi ; The I as Other: the Real, the Archive and the Witness / Álvaro Fernández Bravo ; The Documentary Between the First and the Third PersonL / Gonzalo Aguilar.
Summary:
"Examining Brazilian and Argentine cinema of the last fifteen years, this volume charts the emergence of a new concern with the real, bringing together contributions from leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Comparing 'New Argentine Cinema" and the Brazilian 'Retomada,' the contributors read across the boundaries between documentary and fiction and trace new modes of deploying performance and re-enactment, found footage, and the interplay between film and television and theater. They shed light on similarities between and variations in different Latin American national cinemas' filmic discourses and production contexts and map these findings onto the larger context of current film theory."--Publisher's website.
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