Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cunha, Mariana (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), da Silva, Antônio Márcio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Motion pictures, American.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Latin America-Politics and government.; Motion pictures.; Latin American Cinema and TV.; Latin American Culture.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Latin American Politics.; Global Cinema and TV.

This edited collection explores how contemporary Latin American cinema has dealt with and represented issues of human rights, moving beyond many of the recurring topics for Latin American films. Through diverse interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, and analyses of different au...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Human Rights and the Shadow of Chile's Dictatorship: Patricio Guzmán and the Poetics of a Cinematic Landscape
• 3. Rewriting the History of the Urban Revolutionary: Documentary Film and Human Rights Activism in Post-Dirty War Society
• 4. Human Rights Abuses and State Violence in Prison Films by Hector Babenco
• 5. Territories, Existence and Identities: Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Films
• 6. The Right to Nature: Contested Landscapes and Indigenous Territoriality in Martírio (2016)
• 7. Urban Occupations: Cinema and the Struggle for the Right to Housing
• 8. The Art of the Social Movement Corrective: On Redeeming the Human Rights Narrative in También la lluvia and Our Brand is Crisis
• 9. Transnational Finance on the Road to the Andes: Societal Ruptures and Poisoned Deals in La deuda/Oliver's Deal (2015)
• 10. A Woman's Right to Move: The Politics of Female Walking in Latin American Cinema
• 11. Intersectionality as a Human Rights Issue in Contemporary Latin American Queer Cinema.