Listening to Others

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.

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