{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Gender 305 Gender and International Human Rights ","title":"Rights on Reel: Exploring Human Rights Through Film","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/67ecaac8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1910,"description":"In this episode, students delve into the complex relationship between film and human\nrights. The conversation explores how films have been used as a medium to convey and\nconceptualize stories related to human rights, shedding light on issues, injustices, violence, and\nviolations. Students examine the power of film to connect and empathize with individuals\nwhose human rights have been violated and to critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of\nthis approach.\nReferences:\nSpecific Film Examples:\n‘The Whistleblower” (2010)\n‘Selma’ (2014)\n‘On the Basis of Sex’ (2018\nSnowpiercer (2014)\nThe Swimmers (2022) **\nSchindler’s List (1993)\nHotel Rwanda (2004) **\nTriangle of Sadness (2022)\nPersepolis (2007)\nBeasts of No Nation (2015)\nA Woman in Berlin (2008)\nLetters from Iwo Jima (2006)\nThe Life and Death of Marsha P Johnson (2017) doc\nGandhi (1982)\nThe Hunting Ground (2015) American doc\nLocalized sexual violence (university campuses)\n13th (2016) American doc **\nScholarly Support:\n- Nash, Kate. 2022. Knowing through human rights films. Human Rights Quarterly, 44(1),\npp.193-209. ISSN 0275-0392 [Article]\n- Tascon, S. (2012). Considering Human Rights Films, Representation, and Ethics: Whose Face?\nHuman Rights Quarterly, 34(4), 864-883. © 2012 by The Johns Hopkins University Press.\n- Michelle Brown, Nicole Rafter, Genocide Films, Public Criminology, Collective Memory, The\nBritish Journal of Criminology, Volume 53, Issue 6, November 2013, Pages\n1017–1032,https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azt043\n- Derrick Alan Everett, Public Narratives + Reparations in Rwanda: On the Potential of Film as\nPromoter of International Human Rights + Reconciliation, 7 Nw. J. Int'l Hum. Rts. 103\n(2009).http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njihr/vol7/iss1/4\n- Stoddard, J., Marcus, A. S., & Hicks, D. (2017). Teaching difficult history through film. Taylor &\nFrancis.\n- Hamblin, S. (2016). The Form and Content of Human Rights Film. The Radical Teacher, (104),\n38-47.\n- Swimelar, S. (2014). Making human...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nvNULwoxoPFTm1CCmWbUj7zg0urWbxETCdGHjEQSjNw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xYzk5/NmZiNGI2Y2Q3YjEy/NWMxNmI0NGVjNWU3/ZGQ0NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}