Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER 1. The Jungle and the City: Modernity in Two 1920s Documentaries 7
6. CHAPTER 2. Government Educational Shorts, Bandit Footage, and Vera Cruz Documentaries 35
7. CHAPTER 3. Documentary and Cinema Novo 61
8. CHAPTER 4. Documentary, Dictatorship, and Repression 89
9. CHAPTER 5. Biographies of a Sort, Part I (1974–1989) 115
10. CHAPTER 6. Documenting Identity 145
11. CHAPTER 7. Biographies of a Sort, Part II (1994–2016) 167
12. CHAPTER 8. The City and the Countryside 211
13. Epilogue: A Country in Crisis 241
14. Select Filmography 253
15. Notes 263
16. Bibliography 287
17. Index 297