The Representation of Perpetrators in Global Documentary Film

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Type

Etudes

Sujet

Genre > Documentaire

Mots Clés

documentaire, politique

Année d'édition

2025 (30 janvier 2025)

Editeur

Routledge

1ere édition

2023

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 166 pages
17,5 x 24,5 cm

ISBN

978-1-032-56730-3

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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 lies in the shift in point of view they propose: their protagonists, rather than being the victims of the atrocities, are instead their perpetrators. A significant number of documentary films examining crimes against humanity from the perpetrators’ perspective have been released in the first two decades of this century. This current tendency together with the growing scholarly interest in the explorations of the perpetrator underscore the timeliness of the present book. It aims to explore how the perpetrator is represented in recent documentary films in different sociocultural contexts around the world. The perpetrator documentary films’ objects of study in this book are contextualized in the following contexts: Indonesian, Cambodian and Rwandan genocides, Chilean and Argentine dictatorship, Spanish Civil War and its aftermaths, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nazi legacy, South Africa Apartheid and USA's state perpetrations. Among others, the documentary films analysed are as follows: The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, National Bird, Fahrenheit 11/9, Waltz with Bashir, Z32, El Pacto de Adriana, El Color del Camaleón, 70 y Pico, and El hijo del cazador.

The Representation of Perpetrators in Global Documentary Film will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Filmmaking, Communication Studies, Media Studies, Visual Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Continuum.

À propos de l'auteur :
Fernando Canet is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Fine Arts College at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. He has been Visiting Research fellow at Goldsmiths College, New York University, University of Kent, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and he enjoyed a stay under the Erasmus-STA program at the Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy.

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