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