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African Cinema and Human Rights

By Mette Hjort

African Cinema and Human Rights Social Sciences

African Cinema and Human Rights

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Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communities; legitimating, and consequently solidifying, an expanded scope for human rights; and promoting the realization of social and economic rights. Including the voices of African scholars, scholar-filmmakers, African directors Jean-Marie Teno and Gaston Kaboré, and researchers whose work focuses on transnational cinema, this volume explores overall perspectives, and differences of perspective, pertaining to Africa, human rights, and human rights filmmaking alongside specific case studies of individual films and areas of human rights violations. With its interdisciplinary scope, attention to practitioners' self-understandings, broad perspectives, and particular case studies, African Cinema and Human Rights is a foundational text that offers questions, reflections, and evidence that help us to consider film's ideal role within the context of our ever-continuing struggle towards a more just global society.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
328
Release Date:
2019-03-01
Publication Date:
2019-03-01
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0253039436
ISBN13:
9780253039439
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
477 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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