Shifting Horizons

Alice Allen is a specialist in contemporary Brazilian visual culture with a background in Modern European languages, and a documentary Producer. She has worked in the British broadcasting industry since 2013 on domestic and international productions for the BBC and Channel 4, including BAFTA-winning My Son the Jihadi and Stacey Dooley’s Sex in Strange Places: Brazil. She is a founding member of Watersprite Film Festival in Cambridge, which she co-directed in 2011, celebrating the best of international student short film.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction Documentary Film, Conscientização and ‘Socially Concerned’ ProductionCinema Novo and the ‘Socially Concerned’ PrecedentBack to the FutureThinking about DocumentaryDocumentary Photography and Photojournalism Photography as a Vehicle for Social ChangeA Common Dynamic Drawing Boundaries CHAPTER 1–Wasteland Introduction Modernism,Waste Materials and an Aesthetic of the Fragment‘Jardim Gramacho’Contemplating your Rubbish’s Home away from Home(In)visible LabourNature and the Apocalyptic LandscapeEstamira Dynamic MarginalityThe Body as a BattlegroundLixo extraordinário Establishing Perspective and IdentificationFertile Images: a Productive RevelationCHAPTER 2–The Human Warehouse Introduction The Prison in Cultural ProductionO prisioneiro da grade de ferro: auto-retratos Exercising ControlInside Out/Outside In: Perspective and ConnectivityInverting Myths‘Imprisoned Spaces’ Access, Territory and ControlVisible Absence/Invisible PresenceJuízo Interchangeable Bodies: Authenticity and PerformanceCarceral Cycles: Caught in the MotionsCHAPTER 3–Zones of Contestation Introduction Avenida Brasília Formosa Where Bodies Meet MachinesMapping the NeighbourhoodSão Paulo: Occupying the Centre ‘911’ ‘Morar’ ‘O muro’ CHAPTER 4–Shifting Perspectives on/from the Morro Introduction ‘Rio–Entre morros’ Inapprehensible LandscapesAn Anti-cartography: or Where Am I?Babilônia 2000 Imagens do Povo Upside Down Inside Out, or ‘Stretching Limits’Resisting the GazeHorizons Old and NewConclusion References Filmography Online Photography Collections