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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: Watching Human Rights
• Subtitle: The 101 Best Films
• Author: Mark Gibney
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230
• EAN: 9781612051413
• ID: 04838396
• Publisher: Paradigm
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. April 2014

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