Abstract
In Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present, film and media studies scholar Gustavo Procopio Furtado makes an impressive contribution to the study of documentary films in Brazil. Consisting of three interrelated sections with two chapters each, the book engages with the concepts of documentary and archive from a variety of perspectives—combining socio-political and theoretical discussion with close analysis of a well-chosen selection of contemporary documentaries.
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Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present
In Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present, film and media studies scholar Gustavo Procopio Furtado makes an impressive contribution to the study of documentary films in Brazil
The first section, Ethnographies of the Indigenous, contrasts the “crisis of the ethnographic archive and the contact film” for non-indigenous directors with documentaries by indigenous filmmakers that rearticulate what indigeneity means for their communities in the present (43)
Summary
Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present. In Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present, film and media studies scholar Gustavo Procopio Furtado makes an impressive contribution to the study of documentary films in Brazil.
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