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The Social documentary in Latin America

Title
The Social documentary in Latin America / Julianne Burton, editor.
Publication
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1990.

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Additional Authors
Burton, Julianne
Description
xi, 455 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Pitt Latin American series
Uniform Title
Pitt Latin American series.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. I, Establishing Shots: 1. Toward a history of social documentary in Latin America / Julianne Burton -- 2. Rediscovering documentary: cultural context and intentionality / Michael Chanan -- 3. Democratizing documentary: modes of address in the new Latin American cinema, 1958-1972 / Julianne Burton -- pt. II, Wide Angles: 4. The voice of the other: Brazilian documentary in the 1970s / Jean-Claude Bernardet -- 5. Chilean documentary: continuity and disjunction / Zuzana M. Pick -- 6. Santiago Alvarez: from dramatic form to direct cinema / John Mraz -- 7. Left, right and center: El Salvador on film / Pat Aufderheide -- 8. Collective experience, synthetic forms: El Salvador's radio venceremos / John Hess -- 9. On the trail of independent video / Karen Ranucci, with Julianne Burton -- pt. III, Texts in Close-up: 10. The voice of the present over images of the past: Historical narration in Memories of a Mexican / Margarita de Orellana -- 11. The sociological model or his master's voice: Ideological form in Viramundo / Jean-Claude Bernardet -- 12. Cuba's Latin American weekly newsreel: cinematic language and political effectiveness / Jorge Fraga -- 13. The hour of the furnaces and the two avant-gardes / Robert Stam -- 14. The battle of Chile: documentary, political process, and representation / Ana M. Lopez -- 15. Nicaraguan reconstruction documentary: toward a theory and praxis of participatory cinema and dialogic address / John Ramirez -- 16. Women make media: three modes of production / Julia Lesage -- pt. IV, Beyond the Documentary/Fiction Dichotomy: 17. Bay of Pigs: Bertolt Brecht meets John Wayne / John Hess -- 18. Iracema: transcending cinema verite / Ismail Xavier -- 19. Transitional states: creative complicities with the real in Man Marked to Die: twenty years later and patriamada / Julianne Burton -- 20. At the limits of documentary: hypertextual transformation and the new Latin American cinema / Ana M. Lopez.
ISBN
  • 0822936216
  • 9780822936213
  • 0822954192
  • 9780822954194
LCCN
89004831
OCLC
  • ocm19456117
  • 19456117
  • SCSB-1920913
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library