Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Cornell University 2012
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • APR 11, 2018

    The Amazon: A Natural Laboratory for the Study of the Environment, Politics and Society

  • JUN 21, 2013

    Al Jazeera's "The Stream"

    Change Brazil: Beyond the bus fare
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Portugal (Country) 

  • Research

    • Brazil (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Brazil (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Furtado, Gustavo Procopio. Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present. Oxford University Press, USA, 2019.

  • Academic Articles

    • Furtado, Gustavo, and Maria Guadalupe Arenillas. “Introducción al dossier: “Justicia y ley en el cine documental en América Latina”.” Revista Cine Documental, no. 20 (August 1, 2019): 4–13.
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    • Furtado, Gustavo. “El cine documental y los procedimientos de la ley: observación y reflexividad en el cine de Maria Augusta Ramos.” Revista Cine Documental 20, no. 20 (August 1, 2019): 95–120.
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    • Furtado, Gustavo Procopio. “Remembering objects in the essay film: Andrés di Tella as heir, archaeologist and collector.” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 13, no. 2 (September 1, 2015): 123–38. https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin.13.2.123_1.
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    • Furtado, G. P. “The borders of sense: Revisiting iracema, uma transa amazonica (1974).” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 22, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 399–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2013.840276.
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  • Book Sections

    • Furtado, G. P. “Where are the “people”?: The politics of the virtual and the ordinary in contemporary Brazilian documentaries.” In Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium, 115–31, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49523-5_7.
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  • Other Articles

    • Guarana, Bruno. “"Cinematic Archives of the Present: A Conversation with Gustavo Furtado".” Film Quarterly. University of California Press, December 10, 2019.
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    • Furtado, Gustavo. “A Living Cinema: Notes on Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014).” Panoramas, October 20, 2016.
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  • Book Reviews

    • Furtado, Gustavo. “Guzmán, Tracy Devine. Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity After Independence.” Journal of Lusophone Studies. 2016, n.d.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • AMI 420S: Political Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • AMI 540S: Memory and Documentary Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • DOCST 540S: Memory and Documentary Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • LATAMER 341S: Perspectives on the Amazon 2020
  • LATAMER 380S: Political Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • LATAMER 540S: Memory and Documentary Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • LIT 341S: Perspectives on the Amazon 2020
  • LIT 381S: Political Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • LIT 544S: Memory and Documentary Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • PORTUGUE 341S: Perspectives on the Amazon 2020
  • PORTUGUE 341SP: Perspectives on the Amazon Preceptorial 2020
  • ROMST 89S: First Year Seminar in Romance Studies 2020
  • ROMST 341S: Perspectives on the Amazon 2020
  • ROMST 341SP: Perspectives on the Amazon Preceptorial 2020
  • ROMST 540S: Memory and Documentary Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • ROMST 791: Independent Study 2020
  • SPANISH 380S: Political Cinema in Latin America 2020
  • SPANISH 494: Research Independent Study 2020
  • AMI 89S: First-Year Seminar 2019
  • AMI 290S: Special Topics in Film Studies 2019
  • LATAMER 89S: First Year Seminar in Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2019
  • LATAMER 390S: Special Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Culture and Society 2019
  • LIT 89S: First-Year Seminar 2019
  • LIT 390S: Special Topics in Literature 2019
  • PORTUGUE 390S: Topics in Lusophone Literature and Culture 2019
  • PORTUGUE 791: Special Readings 2019
  • SPANISH 390S: Special Topics in Spanish Studies 2019
  • ROMST 495: Honors Thesis 2018

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