Overview

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.

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Author:   Natalia Brizuela ,  Krista Brune
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438497891

ISBN 10:   143849789
Pages:   399
Publication Date:   02 November 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Listening to Others in Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary Cinema Natalia Brizuela Part I: Media Ecologies 1. Coutinho's Ecology: Space, Place, and the Disappearing Location Jens Andermann 2. Returning to the Sertão in the Films of Eduardo Coutinho Ashley Brock 3. The Audiovisual Record and the Corporeal Present: Another Dialogue in Eduardo Coutinho's Cinema of Conversation Gustavo Procopio Furtado Part II: Politics and the Documentary Image 4. From CPC to Videofilmes: Eduardo Coutinho's Trajectory as a Political Filmmaker Krista Brune 5. Cinema of/as Garbage: Eduardo Coutinho's Politics of Image from Jogo de cena to Boca de lixo Luz Horne 6. Eduardo Coutinho and Globo Repórter: Between Social Documentary and the Mass Media in Dictatorship-Era Brazil Rielle Navitski Part III: Performing the Self and Others 7. Um dia na vida: Copy, Enunciation, Chatter Adriana Johnson 8. To Act or to Act: Present, Presence, and Representation in Eduardo Coutinho's Jogo de cena Brenno Kenji Kaneyasu 9. Song, Self, and Sound in Eduardo Coutinho's Cinema Fernando Pérez Villalón Part IV: On Time and Endings 10. Open Futures: On Ends and Endings in the Conversational Documentaries of Eduardo Coutinho and Errol Morris Bruno Carvalho 11. Parting Glances: The Posthumous Coutinho Nilo Fernando Couret 12. The Right Moment: Kairos and the Documentary Cinema of Eduardo Coutinho Vinicius Navarro Part V: Coutinho in His Own Words (translations by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux) 13. Gaze in Documentary: Statement/Letter to Paulo Paranaguá Eduardo Coutinho 14. The Melancholy of Twilight Eduardo Coutinho 15. A Latin Hollywood in Search of Markets Eduardo Coutinho 16. A Chess Match Between Death and the Knight Eduardo Coutinho Part VI: Critical Insights from Coutinho's Contemporaries (translations by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux) 17. On the Film That Never Was Ferreira Gullar 18. Brazil by Our Own Selves José Carlos Avellar 19. Mouth Full of Trash José Carlos Avellar 20. Victory Over the Ash Heap of History Jean-Claude Bernardet 21. Jogo de cena Jean-Claude Bernardet Contributors Index

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""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

"""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"

Author Information

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.

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