CINE 380IScreening the American Western

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CINE 380I What Can HumanRights Films Do? - This course examines documentary, feature, and experimental films that address 20th and 21st century human rights violations around the world in order to address the question: What can human rights films do? We will consider these films through rhetorical, technical, and aesthetic lenses to examine the production of our selected films and their impact on socio-political change and on our understandings of atrocity. Human rights topics may include genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, unequal development, and torture. Across different genres and contexts, we will look at the links between film, evidence, and activism.