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1 online resource |
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Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America |
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Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.
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| Contents |
Introduction : documenting the multiple stories of migration / Esteban Loustaunau and Lauren Shaw -- part I. Enacting politics of place in the diaspora -- Harvest of empire : affect and a counter narrative of Latino migration / Lauren Shaw -- Documenting deportable life : knowledge, performance and memory in abused : the postville raid and sin país / Jared List -- Resisting Arizona's S.B. 1070 through devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe : undocumented immigrant women's contentious repertoires in the vigil / Thomas Piñeros Shields -- The unending journey of the migrant mother in Los Invisibles and de Nadie / Esteban Loustaunau -- part II. (Re)membering past and present lives -- Re-membering the Pedro Pan Children Exodus in documentary film / Ada Ortúzar-Young -- Migration and identities : the director of abuelos searches for her exiled genealogical roots / Manuel F. Medina -- La Churona and the neobaroque aesthetic : mapping of a Trans-Atlantic Ecuador / Lizardo Herrera -- part III. Migrant identities and displaced subjectivities -- Testimonial youth in flux : migration, narrative, and children in which way home / Ramón J. Guerra -- Resistance in motion : small cinemas by Cuban women in the diaspora / Zaira Zarza -- Who documents the migrant? decolonial aesthetics, Museo de America, and the internet documentary / Juan G. Ramos -- part IV. Conversations on documentary film and migration -- Luis Argueta : migrant voices without fear / interview by Esteban E. Loustaunau -- Jenny Alexander : breaking the silence through documentary filmmaking / interview by Esteban E. Loustaunau -- Tin Dirdamal : intimate gaze of significant concerns / interview by Lauren E. Shaw -- Heidi Hassan : love and identity in the Cuban diaspora / interview by Lauren E. Shaw -- María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa : filming common experiences of migration / interview by Esteban E. Loustaunau |
| Summary |
In the media, migrants are often portrayed as criminals; they are frequently dehumanized, marginalized, and unable to share their experiences. Telling Migrant Stories explores how contemporary documentary film gives voice to Latin American immigrants whose stories would not otherwise be heard. The essays in the first part of the volume consider the documentary as a medium for Latin American immigrants to share their thoughts and experiences on migration, border crossings, displacement, and identity. Contributors analyze films including Harvest of Empire, Sin país, The Vigil, De nadie, Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba, Abuelos, La Churona, and Which Way Home, as well as internet documentaries distributed via platforms such as Vimeo and YouTube. They examine the ways these films highlight the individual agency of immigrants as well as the global systemic conditions that lead to mass migrations from Latin American countries to the United States and Europe. The second part of the volume features transcribed interviews with documentary filmmakers, including Luis Argueta, Jenny Alexander, Tin Dirdamal, Heidi Hassan, and María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa. They discuss the issues surrounding migration, challenges they faced in the filmmaking process, the impact their films have had, and their opinions on documentary film as a force of social change. They emphasize that because the genre is grounded in fact rather than fiction, it has the ability to profoundly impact audiences in a way narrative films cannot. Documentaries prompt viewers to recognize the many worlds migrants depart from, to become immersed in the struggles portrayed, and to consider the stories of immigrants with compassion and solidarity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 8, 2018) |
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Foreign workers, Latin American -- United States
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Foreign workers, Latin American -- Europe
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Noncitizens -- United States -- History
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Documentary films -- History
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Illegal immigration -- United States -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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Illegal immigration
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Documentary films
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Emigration and immigration
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Foreign workers, Latin American
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Noncitizens
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Latin America -- Emigration and immigration
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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Europe -- Emigration and immigration
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Europe
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Latin America
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Loustaunau, Esteban, editor.
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Shaw, Lauren, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781683400509 |
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168340050X |
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