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OverviewDrawing on the challenges of urban expansion and increasing population density facing contemporary Brazil, Shifting Horizons is an interdisciplinary investigation of the treatment of social difference in documentary film and photography and its potential to effect social and political change. Explores the Brazilian documentary tradition of conscientização, alongside new movements such as inclusão visual, introducing the voices of a range of innovative and highly contemporary artists, filmmakers, and cultural commentators Discusses traditionally marginalized urban spaces using the concepts of inequality, segregation, integration, and relationality Bridges the domains of film and photography and brings greater awareness to Brazilian cultural output Highlights new ways in which today’s social documentary practice and production can inspire social and cultural transformation, in Brazil and around the world Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alice Louisa AllenPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781119328551ISBN 10: 1119328551 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 21 July 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Documentary Film, Conscientização and ‘Socially Concerned’ Production Cinema Novo and the ‘Socially Concerned’ Precedent Back to the Future Thinking about Documentary Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Photography as a Vehicle for Social Change A 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 Labour Nature and the Apocalyptic Landscape Estamira Dynamic Marginality The Body as a Battleground Lixo extraordinário Establishing Perspective and Identification Fertile Images: a Productive Revelation CHAPTER 2–The Human Warehouse Introduction The Prison in Cultural Production O prisioneiro da grade de ferro: auto-retratos Exercising Control Inside Out/Outside In: Perspective and Connectivity Inverting Myths ‘Imprisoned Spaces’ Access, Territory and Control Visible Absence/Invisible Presence Juízo Interchangeable Bodies: Authenticity and Performance Carceral Cycles: Caught in the Motions CHAPTER 3–Zones of Contestation Introduction Avenida Brasília Formosa Where Bodies Meet Machines Mapping the Neighbourhood São Paulo: Occupying the Centre ‘911’ ‘Morar’ ‘O muro’ CHAPTER 4–Shifting Perspectives on/from the Morro Introduction ‘Rio–Entre morros’ Inapprehensible Landscapes An Anti-cartography: or Where Am I? Babilônia 2000 Imagens do Povo Upside Down Inside Out, or ‘Stretching Limits’ Resisting the Gaze Horizons Old and New Conclusion References Filmography Online Photography CollectionsReviewsAuthor InformationAlice 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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