Bibliography: Contemporary Documentary Film and the Law

Bibliography: Contemporary Documentary Film and the Law

Titles marked in bold are the most directly relevant or useful for the seminar. 

Readings

  • Allen, Alice. Shifting Horizons: Urban Space and Social Difference in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary and Photography (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell). [Introduction and pp. 72-112 for crime and incarceration]
  • Bruzzi, Stella. New Documentary: A Critical Introduction (Routledge: London, 2011)
  • Arenillas, María Guadalupe, and Gustavo Furtado. 'Introducción al dossier: “Justicia y ley en el cine documental en América Latina"', Cine documental, vol. 20 (2019), pp. 4-13.
  • Cunha, Mariana and Antônio Márcio da Silva (eds.). Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
  • Furtado, Gustavo. Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • ----------------------. 'El cine documental y los procedimientos de la ley: observación y reflexividad en el cine de Maria Augusta Ramos', Cine documental, vol. 20 (2019), pp. 95-120.
  • González, César. El fetichismo de la marginalidad (Lomas de Zamora: Sudestada, 2021) (sections to be uploaded to Moodle).
  • Nichols, Bill. Introduction to Documentary (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001).
  • Piedras, Pablo. 'Subjetividad y ética en el cine documental argentino contemporáneo', Chasqui, vol. 43 (2014), pp. 44-56.
  • Robson, Peter. 'Law and Film Studies: Autonomy and Theory'. In Law and Popular Culture, ed. by Michael Freeman (Oxford: Oxford University press, 2005), pp. 21-46.
  • Rosenberg, Fernando J. 'Judicial Documentary, Evidence, and the Question of Technology'. In After Human Rights: Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016). pp. 121-146.
  • Wilson-Nunn, Oliver. 'Pedagogy Behind and Beyond Bars: Critical Perspectives on Prison Education in Contemporary Documentary Film from Argentina', Latin American Research Review, vol. 57, no. 4 (2022), pp. 903-921.