Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking, among others.

Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking, among others

Introduction PART I: AESTHETICS AND POLITICS 1. A Poetics of the Trace; Ana M. López 2. First-Person Documentary and the New Political Subject: Enunciation, Recent History, and the Present in New Argentine Cinema; Antonio Gómez 3. Under the Surface of the Image: Cultural Narrative, Symbolic Landscapes, and National Identity in the Films of Jorge de Léon and Armando Capó; Ruth Goldberg 4. Performance in Brazilian Documentaries; Vinicius Navarro 5. Narrative, Visibility, and Trauma in Bus 174 ; Cecilia Sayad 6. Residual Images and Political Time: Memory and History in Chile, Obstinate Memory and City of Photographers ; José Miguel Palacios PART II: COMMUNITY AND INDIGENOUS MEDIA 7. Reenact, Reimagine: Performative Indigenous Documentaries of Bolivia and Brazil; Amalia Córdova 8. An Other Documentary is Possible: Indy Solidarity Video and Aesthetic Politics; Freya Schiwy 9. Chilean Political Documentary Video of the 1980s; Antonio Traverso and Germán Liñero PART III: LOCAL, NATIONAL, ANDTRANSNATIONAL DIALOGUES 10. Bolivia in View; Michael Chanan 11. Intimate Spaces and Migrant Imaginaries: Sandra Gómez, Susana Barriga, and Heidi Hassan; Susan Lord and Zaira Zarza 12. Documentary on Wheels: Car Culture in Karen Rossi's Isla Chatarra ; Juan Carlos Rodríguez 13. Rasquache Mockumentary: Alex Rivera's Why Cybraceros ?; Debra A. Castillo