Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America

Chapter 1 Introduction: Fiction, Documentary, and Cultural Change in Latin America

Chapter 2 The Space between Fiction and Documentary in Latin American Cinema: Notes toward a Genealogy

Chapter 3 On the Margins of Reality: Fiction, Documentary, and Marginal Subjectivity in Three Early Cuban Revolutionary Films

Chapter 4 Cuban Documentary: Synergy and Its Discontents

Chapter 5 O sertão nao virou mar : Images of Violence and the Position of the Spectator in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

Chapter 6 Cofralandes : A Formative Space for Chilean Identity

Chapter 7 Aunt Juana’s Shop, or Reality as Metaphor, in María Novaro’s El jardín del Edén

Chapter 8 Mockumentary as Post-nationalism: National Identity in A Day without a Mexican by Sergio Arau

Chapter 9 Between Image and Word: Minority Discourses and Community Construction in Eduardo Coutinho’s Documentaries

Chapter 10 Characters and Conflict: Dramatic Structure in Three Mexican Documentaries

Chapter 11 Whodunnit? In Search of the Real/Reel (and Imagined) Aro Tolbukhin in Aro Tolbukhin: En la mente del asesino

Chapter 12 Filming Psychoanalysis: The Documentation of Paranoia and the “Paranoid Gaze” in Luis Buñuel’s Él

Chapter 13 Digital Mimicry and Visual Tropes: Some Images from Argentina

Chapter 14 Dereferencing the Real: Documentary Mediascapes in the Films of Carlos Marcovich (¿ Quién diablos es Juliette ? and Cuatro labios )

Chapter 15 Documenting Urban Fictions in Contemporary Argentine Film: Notes on Pablo Trapero’s El bonaerense