[ecrea] CFP: Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America

>CALL FOR PAPERS
>Academic Journal Special Issue
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>Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America: Concepts, Histories,
>Experiences
>
>Latin American political documentary has had a long history of tracing
>periods of crisis and reflecting upon questions of ideology, ethnic
>struggle, indigenous and womens movements, national identity, memory, and
>trauma, while its socially committed nature often finds artistic expression
>in the social and political aspirations of particular communities. As such,
>Latin American political documentaries consistently make demands on
>spectators that require them to question their own assumptions about social
>reality, history, economic development, morality, political allegiance, and
>class-consciousness. While scholarship in English about Latin American
>narrative cinemaboth historical and contemporaryis abundant, the same
>cannot be said about studies of the regions social and political
>documentary cinema. In 1990 Julianne Burton wrote that [d]espite the
>thematic, stylistic and generic variety of Latin American documentary [&]
>and its broad social and cultural impact, the existing literature on Latin
>American documentary practices is sparse indeed. Two decades later, despite
>an explosion of documentary practice in the continent during the 1990s and
>2000s, the paucity of scholarship on this subject continues.
>
>In an attempt to expand this emergent area of study, we invite essays that
>engage with historical, stylistic and/or theoretical issues in Latin
>American political documentary for inclusion in a special issue of a
>refereed academic journal. We are especially interested in essays that
>contribute to key theoretical debates in global documentary film theory
>through analysis of specific Latin American political documentaries. Essays
>may theorize Latin American political documentary cinema from a regional or
>continental perspective, or focus on films, filmmakers and film movements
>from any historical period and, produced specifically in the following Latin
>American countries and regions: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,
>Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Central America and the Caribbean.
>Also welcome are essays on the work of diasporic Latin American political
>documentarians and original interviews with documentary filmmakers from any
>Latin American country.
>
>Expressions of interest to be emailed the special issues co-editors by July
>31, 2010. Expressions of interest should include authors name, affiliation,
>email address, and an indication of the country, filmmakers/films/film
>movement, and theme you intend to write about.
>
>Accepted proposal will have a deadline of 30 October 2010 for the submission
>of completed essays. Essays will be written in English and of a length
>between 6 and 8 thousand words.
>
>For queries, please contact:            Kristi Wilson (Soka University of
>America)
>                                         (kwilson /at/ soka.edu)
>
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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