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Country's Indigenous Population
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Face To Face
film
film analysis for human rights education
Gabourey Sidibe
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Human Rights
Human Rights Films
Human Rights Revolution
Human Suffering
International Human Rights Standards
International Monetary Fund
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Last Train
life
Lord's Resistance Army
Main Characters
Mandela
Martina Gedeck
Nelson Mandela
Persona
political violence cinema
Revolutionary United Front
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Tattoo
Timeless
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Violated
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Young Men
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- ISBN 9781612051406
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In order to be able to protect human rights, it is first necessary to see the denial of those rights. Aside from experiencing human rights violations directly, either as a victim or as an eyewitness, more than any other medium film is able to bring us closer to this aspect of the human experience. Yet, notwithstanding its importance to human rights, film has received virtually no scholarly attention and thus one of the primary goals of this book is to begin to fill this gap. From an historical perspective, human rights were not at all self-evident by reason alone, but had to gain standing through an appeal to human emotions found in novels as well as in works of moral philosophy and legal theory. Although literature continues to play an important role in the human rights project, film is able to take us that much further, by universalizing the particular experience of others different from ourselves, the viewers. Watching Human Rights analyzes more than 100 of the finest human rights films ever made-documentaries, feature films, faux documentaries, animations, and even cartoons. It will introduce the reader to a wealth of films that might otherwise remain unknown, but it also shows the human rights themes in films that all of us are familiar with.
Mark Gibney is the Carol G. Belk Distinguished Professor in Humanities at the University of North Carolina–Asheville. He has authored numerous books and is an award-winning scholar of human rights.
