Listening to Others

Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary Cinema

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A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.Listening to Others is the first English-language volume dedicated solely to the vast corpus of the preeminent Brazilian director, Eduardo Coutinho (1933–2014). From his early work in the 1960s to his last, posthumous film in 2015, Coutinho transformed documentary filmmaking in Brazil and beyond. Described as an informal linguist and savage anthropologist, Coutinho filmed encounters with people different from himself that foregrounded their voices and his role as an attentive listener, creating a "cinema of listening." This collection brings together leading scholars of film, literature, visual culture, Brazilian studies, and Latin American studies, from the United States and Latin America, to examine both Coutinho's masterpieces and less studied films. Using a range of approaches, the contributors invite new ways of understanding the documentarian's trajectory and importance as his work transformed in response to dictatorship, democratization, and other political, social, and technological changes over the course of five decades. The volume also features original translations of a selection of Coutinho's writings and key texts by Brazilian critics to offer a historical perspective on his filmmaking and its reception.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-11-02
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt531 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Latin American Cinema
Antal sidor399
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438497891

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Natalia Brizuela is Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author (with Jodi Roberts) of The Matter of Photography in the Americas, among other books. Krista Brune is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish and Director of the Global and International Studies program at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas, also published by SUNY Press.

List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Listening to Others in Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary CinemaNatalia BrizuelaPart I: Media Ecologies 1. Coutinho's Ecology: Space, Place, and the Disappearing LocationJens Andermann2. Returning to the Sertão in the Films of Eduardo CoutinhoAshley Brock3. The Audiovisual Record and the Corporeal Present: Another Dialogue in Eduardo Coutinho's Cinema of ConversationGustavo Procopio FurtadoPart II: Politics and the Documentary Image 4. From CPC to Videofilmes: Eduardo Coutinho's Trajectory as a Political FilmmakerKrista Brune5. Cinema of/as Garbage: Eduardo Coutinho's Politics of Image from Jogo de cena to Boca de lixoLuz Horne6. Eduardo Coutinho and Globo Repórter: Between Social Documentary and the Mass Media in Dictatorship-Era BrazilRielle NavitskiPart III: Performing the Self and Others 7. Um dia na vida: Copy, Enunciation, ChatterAdriana Johnson8. To Act or to Act: Present, Presence, and Representation in Eduardo Coutinho's Jogo de cenaBrenno Kenji Kaneyasu9. Song, Self, and Sound in Eduardo Coutinho's CinemaFernando Pérez VillalónPart IV: On Time and Endings 10. Open Futures: On Ends and Endings in the Conversational Documentaries of Eduardo Coutinho and Errol MorrisBruno Carvalho11. Parting Glances: The Posthumous CoutinhoNilo Fernando Couret12. The Right Moment: Kairos and the Documentary Cinema of Eduardo CoutinhoVinicius NavarroPart V: Coutinho in His Own Words (translations by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux) 13. Gaze in Documentary: Statement/Letter to Paulo ParanaguáEduardo Coutinho14. The Melancholy of TwilightEduardo Coutinho15. A Latin Hollywood in Search of MarketsEduardo Coutinho16. A Chess Match Between Death and the KnightEduardo CoutinhoPart VI: Critical Insights from Coutinho's Contemporaries (translations by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux) 17. On the Film That Never WasFerreira Gullar18. Brazil by Our Own SelvesJosé Carlos Avellar19. Mouth Full of TrashJosé Carlos Avellar20. Victory Over the Ash Heap of HistoryJean-Claude Bernardet21. Jogo de cenaJean-Claude BernardetContributorsIndex

"Listening to Others offers diverse engagement with the work of Eduardo Coutinho and its various ethics of open conversation between cinematic subjects. While nearly all of Coutinho's films are examined, many of the essays dialogue with one another and offer analyses of the same films from different critical angles. The result is a rich reading experience that allows for further critical engagement with Coutinho's work and with documentary cinema as a whole." — Andrew C. Rajca, author of Dissensual Subjects: Memory, Human Rights, and Postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay