With apologies for cross-posting.
Screen Seminars at Glasgow in association with the University of Glasgow's Latin American Research Network present:
Dr Deborah Shaw (University of Portsmouth): Considering Central American and Mexican migration films as transnational human rights films.
5.30pm, Thursday 16 March
Gilmorehill Halls
University of Glasgow
Abstract
In this paper I present an overview of a new genre of films that focus on migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States. The paper discusses their transnational identities, and compares and contrasts the ways in which they are framed within political and human rights discourses. In the talk I argue that each film draws attention to suffering experienced by Central American and Mexican migrant-refugees in very different ways. In some, their real-life experiences are mediated to sensationalist and melodramatic effect, while structural social oppression is downplayed. Films that can be read as belonging within a human rights framework can highlight urgent social and political issues while also responding to artistic and commercial imperatives. Case studies will be drawn from La misma luna/Under the Same Moon (Riggen, 2007), Sin nombre (Fukunaga 2009), La jaula de oro/The Golden Dream (Quemada Díez 2013), Who is Dayani Cristal? (Silver 2013), and Desierto (Jonás Cuarón, 2015).
All welcome.
Dr David Archibald
Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
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Film and Television Studies
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University of Glasgow
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