{"product_id":"political-documentary-cinema-in-latin-antonio-traverso-9781138781658","title":"Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chapters in this book show the important role that political documentary cinema has played in Latin America since the 1950s. Political documentary cinema in Latin America has a long history of tracing social injustice and suffering, depicting political unrest, intervening in periods of crisis and upheaval, and reflecting upon questions about ideology, cultural identity, genocide and traumatic memory. This collection bears witness to the region's film culture's diversity, discussing documentaries about workers' strikes, riots, and military coups against elected governments; crime, poverty, homelessness, prostitution, children's work, and violence against women; urban development, progress, (under)development, capitalism, and neoliberalism; exile, diaspora and border cultures; trauma and (post)memory. The chapters focus on documentaries made in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, as well as on the work of Latino and diasporic Latin American political documentarians. The contributors to the anthology reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of current Latin American film scholarship, with some writing in Spanish and Portuguese from Argentina and Brazil (with their original works especially translated), and others writing in English from Australia, Europe, and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was originally published as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eSocial Identities\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antonio Traverso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138781657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138781658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.98h x 7.13w x 0.84d","brand":"Antonio Traverso","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087770300671,"sku":"9781138781658","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_acb86402-5bb0-4e29-99a9-5a1ecb4b7876.jpg?v=1769101304","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/political-documentary-cinema-in-latin-antonio-traverso-9781138781658","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}