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Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
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 audiovisual media from fictional and documentary films to digitally-distributed activist films, the contributions discuss the theme of human rights in cinema in connection to various topics and concepts. Chapters in the volume explore the prison system, state violence, the Mexican dirty war, the Chilean dictatorship, debt, transnational finance, indigenous rights, social movement, urban occupation, the right to housing, intersectionality, LGBTT and women’s rights in the context of a number of Latin American countries. By so doing, it assesses the long overdue relation between cinema and human rights in the region, thus opening new avenues to aid the understanding of cinema’s role in social transformation.
Frames of Resistance
While the strength of contemporary Latin American cinema is recognized worldwide, less is known of the cinema of Indigenous communities in the region, a territorial expanse known as Abya Yala. Even so, and even as these Indigenous filmmakers face ongoing challenges--including persecution, state violence, and a lack of infrastructure or funding--they have still managed to flourish over the past four decades, using cinema as a powerful tool for promoting advocacy and fostering self-determination. How do these filmmakers disrupt foundational narratives about their communities, and how does their cinema articulate Indigenous knowledges or provoke a rethinking of society, history, and planetary w...
Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World
Five Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas. The second annual Alchemy Lecture was presented in November 2023 at York University to a sold out in-person audience and nearly one thousand live online viewers. Moderated by Dr. Christina Sharpe, the Alchemists—agile thinkers and practitioners working across a range of disciplines and geographies—convened to discuss their radical visions of the beautiful world, and the manifestos that may help to guide us there. Their treatises have been captured and luminously expanded in the pages of this book. Cherokee Nation citizen and professor Joseph M. Pierce asserts that “[f]or this decolonial future to become possible, the guiding force mu...
Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze
Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy. Spanning national and transnational media in countries including the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy, Stam orchestrates a dialogue between the western mediated gaze on the 'Indian' and the indigenous gaze itself, especially as incarnated in the burgeoning movement of “indigenous media,” that i...
Das garagens para o mundo
A partir dos anos 2000, uma nova geração de realizadores transformou os rumos do cinema brasileiro do período. Começaram nas garagens, com filmes de baixíssimo orçamento, totalmente à margem dos sistemas oficiais de legitimação, mas, pouco a pouco, suas obras foram alcançando reconhecimento artístico no Brasil e no exterior, como símbolo de ousadia, criatividade e juventude. Entre eles, destacam-se coletivos como a Teia (MG), o Alumbramento (CE) e a Filmes de Plástico (MG), e cineastas como Adirley Queirós, Affonso Uchoa, Gabriel Mascaro, Marco Dutra e Juliana Rojas, Felipe Bragança e Marina Meliande, Petrus Cariry, Allan Ribeiro, entre outros. Fruto da pesquisa de doutorado d...
L’archéologie du Futur: Cinémas Africains et Utopies /Archeology of the Future: African Cinemas and Utopias
Depuis ses origines, le cinéma est lié à l’histoire dans une double perspective rétrospective et prospective, qu’il soit geste d’appropriation du passé par la mémoire ou qu’il soit mouvement d’anticipation du futur. Ainsi, la création filmique en Afrique se situe dans la tension entre d’une part, archéologie, histoire et mémoire, et d’autre, part avenir et utopie. Les contributions invitent à réfléchir à la dimension „préemptive“, pour reprendre une expression de Patrice Nganang, des cinémas africains, leur capacité à répondre à l’urgence en même temps qu’à anticiper. Elles s’articulent également autour de l’idée d’une continuité temporelle...
Estudos de Cinema: visualizando as diferenças
A presente coletânea de textos pretende identificar quais são os fatores preponderantes nas pesquisas sobre Cinema e suas intersecções com o audiovisual. Vem crescendo o número de propostas de pesquisa e de estudos que pensam a questão das diferenças, como contraponto ao conceito mais comum de diversidade. Os direitos iguais aos que são diferentes está na base do conceito de feminismo, da forma como foi pensado originalmente na França pela ensaísta e dramaturga Olympe de Gouges. E, na atualidade, a sociedade democrática neoliberal alude quase sempre ao conceito de diversidade que inclui as minorias invariavelmente para neutralizar as diferenças. De certa forma, o padrão de uma ...
Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico
Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwi...
O golpe de 2016 e a corrosão da democracia no Brasil
"O Golpe de 2016 e a corrosão da democracia no Brasil" trata do processo histórico e da percepção sobre o afastamento e a cassação do mandato de Dilma Rousseff. O acontecimento político constitui, por si só, fenômeno político incontestável do ponto de vista historiográfico. Mas como e por que foi possível afastar Dilma Rousseff da presidência da república com os frágeis argumentos utilizados? Quais os fundamentos sociais, políticos e históricos que sustentaram o chamado Golpe de 2016? Esta é a problemática tratada neste livro que analisa como este acontecimento político fundamental para a história esgarçou as fragilidades da democracia brasileira, questionada e desacreditada, como nunca antes, desde a promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988.
