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dc.contributor.authorWilson-Nunn, O
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-19T23:30:53Z
dc.date.available2022-04-19T23:30:53Z
dc.date.issued2022-12
dc.identifier.issn0023-8791
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336237
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Since 2008, numerous Argentine documentary films have explored the complexities of prison education. Prison education documentaries from other countries usually focus overwhelmingly on the possible success of “rehabilitation.” In contrast, this article argues that contemporary Argentine prison education documentaries encourage critical, at times quasi-abolitionist, perspectives on imprisonment by challenging both punitive attitudes and liberal beliefs in the <jats:italic>reinserción</jats:italic> (reintegration) of prisoners into society. Analyzing the documentaries <jats:italic>El almafuerte</jats:italic> (dir. Roberto Sebastián Persano, Santiago Nacif Cabrera, and Andrés Martínez Cantó, Argentina, 2009), <jats:italic>13 puertas</jats:italic> (dir. David Rubio, Argentina, 2014), <jats:italic>Lunas cautivas</jats:italic> (dir. Marcia Paradiso, Argentina, 2012), and <jats:italic>Pabellón 4</jats:italic> (dir. Diego Gachassin, Argentina, 2017), it draws on insights from film studies and criminology to show how these films provide intersectional and structural critiques of imprisonment. “Touristic” and affective encounters between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people serve to challenge comfortable viewing positions predicated on internal-external carceral and cinematic divides. These films teach spectators that outside spaces, people, and institutions are all central to the meaning, problems, and incoherence of incarceration in Argentina.</jats:p>
dc.description.sponsorshipResearched while funded by a Baillie Gifford Cambridge UK Masters Studentship, finished and published while funded by a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titlePedagogy behind and beyond Bars: Critical Perspectives on Prison Education in Contemporary Documentary Film from Argentina
dc.typeArticle
dc.publisher.departmentCentre of Latin American Studies Student
dc.date.updated2022-04-19T09:07:57Z
prism.publicationNameLatin American Research Review
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.83656
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-05-25
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1017/lar.2022.63
rioxxterms.versionAM
dc.contributor.orcidWilson-Nunn, O [0000-0003-1716-3829]
dc.identifier.eissn1542-4278
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
cam.issuedOnline2022-09-26
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