Latin American documentary filmmaking : major works / David William Foster.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foster, David William
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Documentary films > Latin America > History and criticism.
Physical Description:xiv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Filming the socially absent. The role of the narrator in Fernando Birri's Tire dié (Argentina, 1958-60)
  • Nostalgia as a discursive practice in Arturo Ripstein's El palacio negro (Mexico, 1976)
  • Metafilmic devices in Eduardo Coutinho's Boca de lixo (Brazil, 1993)
  • Documenting femicide in Juárez: rhetorical decisions in Lourdes Portillo's Señorita extraviada (United States, 2001)
  • Gender trouble. This woman which is one: Helena Solberg's The double day (United States, 1976)
  • Documenting queer, queer documentary: Cuban sexualities
  • Gender dissonance in Fernando Pérez's Suite Habana (Cuba, 2003)
  • Working clandestinely. Contesting a revolution: Raymundo Gleyzer's documentary México, la revolución congelada
  • Hiding the camera in Miguel Littin's Acta general de Chile
  • Historical present. Privileged spectatorship in Carmen Toscano's Memorias de un Mexicano (Mexico, 1950)
  • Metonymic discourse in Fernando E. Solanas's La hora de los hornos (Argentina, 1968)
  • Patricio Guzmán's La batalla de Chile as sociohistoric bildungsroman (Chile-Cuba, 1975-79).