[ecrea] Call for Papers - Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America

> CALL FOR
> PAPERS
> Academic Journal Special Issue
>
>
> 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 women’s 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 cinema—both
> historical and contemporary—is abundant, the same cannot be said about
> studies of the region’s 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/or
> film movements of any historical period and specifically from the
> following 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 by July 31, 2010. EOI should
> include author’s name, affiliation, and email address, and indicate the
> country, filmmakers/films/film movement, and theme to be addressed in the
> proposed essay.
>
> Accepted proposal will have a deadline of 30 October 2010 for the
> submission of completed essays. Essays must be written in English and be
> of a length of 6 to 8 thousand words.
>
> For submission of EOI and queries, please contact:
>
> Antonio Traverso (Curtin University,
> Australia)        
> (a.traverso /at/ curtin.edu.au)

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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