Human Rights Film Festivals [electronic resource] : Activism in Context /
Tascón, Sonia M.author.
Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each?
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Part I Framings; Introduction1; Theoretical Frames; Human Rights; Films; Film Festivals; Programming; "Looking out-Looking in"; Methods; Book Structure; 1 Human Rights: From Universalism to Internationalism; A Brief Archaeology of Human Rights; Revolutions, Universalism, and Internationalism; Universalism; Legalisms; Internationalism; Activism and Human Rights; 2 Film Festivals: Activism and the Gaze; The Humanitarian Gaze; Activist Film Festivals: Specta(c)tors; Closing Thoughts
Part II Festival Internacional de Cine Derechos Humanos, Buenos AiresIntroduction; 3 Context 1997-2003: History and Politics; Bringing Human Rights into the Public Domain: Dictatorship and Postdictatorship; Madres Plaza de Mayo; Argentine Political Cinema and the Dictatorship; Militant Cinema at the Festival; Neoliberalism and Postneoliberalism; Neoliberalism and Culture; 4 The Festival 1997 to 2003: From the Desaparecidos to Neoliberalism; A Broad Survey of Films: 1997-2003; Argentina, Latin America, and Dictatorships; Neoliberalism: Indigenous Peoples, Workers, and Migrants
Auto-Organizations and GlobalizationClosing Thoughts; 5 Context 2004-14: Postdictatorship, Postneoliberalism, and New Argentine Cinema; The Festival and the Nation; New Argentine Cinema and "the Political"; Los Rubios; Neoliberalism, Indigenous Peoples, and Migration; Benetton, Neoliberalism, and Land: Indigenous Issues; Migrants and Identity; Closing Thoughts; 6 The Festival 2004-14: The "Other" and Cosmopolitan Visions; Broad Survey of Films 2004-14; Indigenous Peoples and Land; Migrants, Migration, and Discrimination; Toward a Cosmopolitan Vision: Environment and Identity; Identity
EnvironmentFilms Called "Human Rights"; Conclusion: Part II; Part III Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, New York; Introduction; 7 Context: From the Cold War to The Yes Men; Helsinki Watch to Human Rights Watch (and) the International Film Festival: 1975-88; Helsinki Watch; The Yes Men; Films, Truth, and Human Rights Ethics; HRWIFF and Independent Political Cinemas of the United States; 8 The Festival: Presences: Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the United States; Eastern Europe; The Middle East; Love Crimes of Kabul; The United States; Gender: A Short Aside
9 Context: From Latin America to Political Documentary in the United StatesHuman Rights in the Time of Dictators; The Question of Audiences and the Humanitarian Gaze; "The Place of Documentary in the Current American Political Climate"; 10 The Festival: Absence: Latin America; The Films from/about Latin America: 1995-97;  2001-13; Argentina; Chile; Cuba; Mexico; Environmental Films from/about Latin America; Costa-Gavras and Pamela Yates at the HRWIFF: Representing Human Rights; Costa-Gavras; Pamela Yates: Human Rights Filmmaker; Granito: Gazing Out or In?; Conclusion: Part III; Conclusions
Films and Human Rights
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each?
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—United States.
Motion pictures, American.
Documentary films.
Motion pictures and television.
Communication.
Film History.
American Cinema and TV.
Latin American Cinema and TV.
Documentary.
Screen Studies.
Media Studies.