The Representation of Perpetrators in Global Documentary Film

The book aims to explore the representation of perpetrator of crimes against humanity in recent documentary films in different sociocultural contexts around the world. It is a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Filmmaking, Communication and Media Studies, Visual Studies and Cultural Studies.

Fernando Canet is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Fine Arts College at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. He has been Visiting Research fellow at Goldsmiths College, New York University, University of Kent, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and he enjoyed a stay under the Erasmus-STA program at the Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy.

1. Introductory Reflections on Perpetrators of Crimes Against Humanity and their Representation in Documentary Film 2. Perpetrating and resisting fortress USA: documentary strategies of National Bird and Fahrenheit 11/9 3. Witnessing the perpetrator: testimony and accountability in current Israeli documentary film 4. From 'exorcism' to engagement: the private sphere of perpetratorship in twenty-first century South African documentary film 5. Remembering perpetrators through documentary film in post-dictatorial Chile 6. Against family loyalty: documentary films on descendants of perpetrators from the last Argentinean dictatorship7. Facing the perpetrator's legacy: post-perpetrator generation documentary films 8. Refiguring the perpetrator in Rithy Panh's documentary films: S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell 9. Using Bourdieu to understand perpetrators in The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence 10.'Forgiveness is something that can be seen from behind'. Visualizing a conversation with a perpetrator and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a reconciliation village