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About Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez

Gustavo E. Gutiérrez Suárez is PhD candidate in Social Anthropology. His areas of interest include Andean and Amazonian Anthropology, as well as Film poetics and aesthetics. You can follow him on Twitter vía @GustavoEGSuarez.

NBN Episodes hosted by Gustavo:

Film December 21, 2022

Ozu

A Closer Look

Kathe Geist

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Based on a close reading of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s extant films, this book provides insights into the ways the director created narrative structures and used symbolism to construct meaning …
Anthropology September 22, 2022

A Future History of Water

Andrea Ballestero

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water (Duke UP, 2019) traces the unspectacular work necessary to make …
Film June 6, 2022

Radical Documentary and Global Crises

Militant Evidence in the Digital Age

Ryan Watson

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
When independent filmmakers, activists, and amateurs document the struggle for rights, representation, and revolution, they instrumentalize images by advocating for a particular outcome. Ryan Watson calls this "militant evidence." In …
Anthropology May 24, 2022

Chinese Environmental Ethics

Religions, Ontologies, and Practices

Mayfair Yang

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious …
Anthropology April 11, 2022

Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide

A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration

Adrian J Pearce, Paul Heggarty, and David G. Beresford-Jones

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. Because of …
Anthropology March 29, 2022

Experimenting with Ethnography

A Companion to Analysis

Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke University Press, 2021) collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors —who come from a variety of …
Film March 16, 2022

Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy

Education Without Learning

René V. Arcilla

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
What is education? Most of the time, we have little patience for this question because we take the answer to be obvious: we identify education with school learning. This book …
Film January 7, 2022

Wim Wenders

Making Films that Matter

Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the first book in 15 years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders's extensive filmography. In addition to offering new …
Film December 27, 2021

Inhospitable World

Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene

Jennifer Fay

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (Oxford UP, 2018) explores the connection between cinema and artificial weather, climates, and even planets in or on which hospitality and …
Film October 22, 2021

The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai

Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance

Gary Bettinson

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong’s filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine …
Film October 13, 2021

Ends of Cinema

Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
At the dawn of the digital era in the final decades of the twentieth century, film and media studies scholars grappled with the prospective end of what was deemed cinema …