The chapters in this book show the important role that political
documentary cinema has played in Latin America since the 1950s.
Political documentary cinema in Latin America has a long history of
tracing social injustice and suffering, depicting political unrest,
intervening in periods of crisis and upheaval, and reflecting upon
questions about ideology, cultural identity, genocide and traumatic
memory. This collection bears witness to the region's film
culture's diversity, discussing documentaries about workers'
strikes, riots, and military coups against elected governments;
crime, poverty, homelessness, prostitution, children's work, and
violence against women; urban development, progress,
(under)development, capitalism, and neoliberalism; exile, diaspora
and border cultures; trauma and (post)memory. The chapters focus on
documentaries made in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and
Venezuela, as well as on the work of Latino and diasporic Latin
American political documentarians. The contributors to the
anthology reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of current
Latin American film scholarship, with some writing in Spanish and
Portuguese from Argentina and Brazil (with their original works
especially translated), and others writing in English from
Australia, Europe, and the USA. This book was originally published
as a special issue of Social Identities.
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