Dictatorships and Dirty Wars: Latin American Cinema from Resistance to Reconciliation

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Examines aspects of Latin American politics and culture of and through the optic of social unrest. Examines films focusing on the period(s) of recent Latin American history in which there have been social upheavals, dictatorships and state repression, 'dirty wars': understood as clandestine wars waged on the citizenry by the government, social movements from below.