Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Listening to Others in Eduardo Coutinho's Documentary Cinema 1
5. Media Ecologies
6. Coutinho's Ecology 19
7. Returning to the Sertão in the Films of Eduardo Coutinho 37
8. The Audiovisual Record and the Corporeal Present 65
9. Politics and the Documentary Image
10. From CPC to Videofilmes 89
11. Cinema of/as Garbage 111
12. Eduardo Coutinho and Globo Repórter 135
13. Performing the Self and Others
14. Um dia na vida 155
15. To Act or to Act 177
16. Song, Self, and Sound in Eduardo Coutinho's Cinema 197
17. On Time and Endings
18. Open Futures 223
19. Parting Glances 243
20. The Right Moment 263
21. Coutinho in His Own Words
22. Introduction 285
23. Gaze in Documentary 289
24. The Melancholy of Twilight 295
25. A Latin Hollywood in Search of Markets 301
26. A Chess Match Between Death and the Knight 307
27. Critical Insights from Coutinho's Contemporaries
28. Introduction 317
29. On the Film that Never Was 321
30. Brazil by Our Own Selves 325
31. Mouth Full of Trash 335
32. Victory Over the Ash Heap of History 341
33. Jogo de cena 353
34. Contributors 363
35. Index 365