1st Edition

The Representation of Perpetrators in Global Documentary Film

Edited By Fernando Canet Copyright 2024
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

    1. Introductory Reflections on Perpetrators of Crimes Against Humanity and their Representation in Documentary Film
    Fernando Canet

    2. Perpetrating and resisting fortress USA: documentary strategies of National Bird and Fahrenheit 11/9
    Janet Walker

    3. Witnessing the perpetrator: testimony and accountability in current Israeli documentary film
    Shmulik Duvdevani and Raz Yosef

    4. From ‘exorcism’ to engagement: the private sphere of perpetratorship in twenty-first century South African documentary film
    Michelle E. Anderson

    5.Remembering perpetrators through documentary film in post-dictatorial Chile
    Daniela Jara

    6. Against family loyalty: documentary films on descendants of perpetrators from the last Argentinean dictatorship
    Lior Zylberman

    7. Facing the perpetrator’s legacy: post-perpetrator generation documentary films
    Javier Moral, Gerd Bayer and Fernando Canet

    8. Refiguring the perpetrator in Rithy Panh’s documentary films: S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
    Didem Alkan

    9. Using Bourdieu to understand perpetrators in The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
    Oki Rahadianto Sutopo

    10. Forgiveness is something that can be seen from behind’. Visualizing a conversation with a perpetrator and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a reconciliation village
    Antonio Traverso and Mick Broderick

    Biography

    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.