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“fernando canet”

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  • The Representation of Perpetrators in Global Documentary Film

    Edited by Fernando Canet ...
    The present book aims to explore how the perpetrator of crimes against humanity is represented in recent documentary films in different sociocultural contexts around the world.In recent years the number of diverse forms of cultural productions focused on the figure of perpetrator has increased significantly, thus eliciting a turn toward this problematic figure. The originality of these narratives ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • (Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

    Edited by Duncan Wheeler, Fernando Canet ...
    Formulated around a number of key thematic concerns – including new creative trends; the politics and practices of memory; auteurship, genre and stardom in a transnational age – this reassessment of contemporary Spanish cinema from 1992 to 2012 brings leading academics from a broad range of disciplinary and geographical backgrounds into dialogue with critically and commercially successful ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

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  • Torture and Democracy

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    This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish ... Read more

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  • Mexican Drug Violence

    Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty

    by Teun Voeten ...
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  • Argentina Betrayed

    Memory, Mourning, and Accountability

    by Antonius C. G. M. Robben ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    The ruthless military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country's people, presiding over massive disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process, destroying the state's trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked their lives to find the disappeared, and one group of mothers defied the repressive regime with weekly ... Read more

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  • Mainstreaming Torture

    Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States

    by Rebecca Gordon ...
    The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was "yes." Rebecca Gordon argues that September 11 did not, as some have said, "change everything," and that institutionalized state torture remains ... Read more

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  • Killer Images

    Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

    Edited by Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic ... Read more

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  • Conspiracy Theories

    A Critical Introduction

    by J. Byford ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Digging for the Disappeared

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    by Adam Rosenblatt ...
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    The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for ... Read more

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  • The History of Genocide in Cinema

    Atrocities on Screen

    Edited by Jonathan Friedman, William Hewitt ...
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