Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Human Rights and the Shadow of Chile’s Dictatorship: Patricio Guzmán and the Poetics of a Cinematic Landscape

Chapter 3 Rewriting the History of the Urban Revolutionary: Documentary Film and Human Rights Activism in Post-dirty War Society

Chapter 4 Human Rights Abuses and State Violence in Prison Films by Hector Babenco

Chapter 5 Territories, Existence and Identities: Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Films

Chapter 6 The Right to Nature: Contested Landscapes and Indigenous Territoriality in Martírio (2016)

Chapter 7 Urban Occupations: Cinema and the Struggle for the Right to Housing

Chapter 8 The Art of the Social Movement Corrective: On Redeeming the Human Rights Narrative in También la lluvia and Our Brand Is Crisis

Chapter 9 Transnational Finance on the Road to the Andes: Societal Ruptures and Poisoned Deals in La deuda/Oliver’s Deal (2015)

Chapter 10 A Woman’s Right to Move: The Politics of Female Walking in Latin American Cinema