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The ‘Human Rights & Visual Culture’ publication is based on a youth seminar which was organised by NISI MASA, together with its Turkish members NISI MASA Turkey/VideA, in Ankara in November 2005. This cross-cultural event gathered almost 30 participants from 14 European countries and local audiences. It dealt with the promotion of Human Rights values through cinema and visual culture. Besides encouraging intercultural dialogue, the organisers of this unique encounter intended to raise awareness concerning the importance of making a broader use of audiovisual works and tools to promote human rights in Europe.

The texts contained today in this book result from the presentations and discussions held during this week-long event. Divided in two main sections, this e-book consists first of 12 national presentations, themselves sorted under 3 main themes: “Censorship”, “Minorities”, “Media ethics”. For example, the 6th text explores the representation of gays and lesbians in Italian cinema with references to filmmakers like Pier P. Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Ettore Scola, Ferzan Ozpetek, etc.

The second part of our publication is a transcription of the public panel discussions that gathered Turkish and International experts and artists. These discussions are again subdivided in several themes: “Human rights violation and censhorship”, “Independent cinema and human rights”,”Media and monopolisation” and “Alternative media”.

The book is illustrated throughout with full colour photographs.

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This publication and the original seminar are supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and by the European Youth Foudation, a fund provided by the Council of Europe. More info about the EYF here.

Table of Contents:

I - NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Censorship

French cinema and censorship: the war of Algeria, Laure Croiset and Yamina Jalili (France)

Eroticism and censorship in Turkish cinema in the 1970’s, Ilkin Mehrabov (Turkey)

Winter and summer: the example of “Blood Ceremony”, Caroline Fournier (Spain)

Censorship in Bulgarian cinema. Before and after 1989, Yasen Pehlivanov and Nina Pehlivanova (Bulgaria)

short History of censorship in Kosovan cinema, Blerton Ajeti and Lulzim Hoti (Kosovo)

Minorities

Invisible men and women. The representation of gays and lesbians in Italian cinema, Sebastiano Pucciarelli and Francesca Repetto (Italy)

Crossing borders in German cinema, Sandra Budesheim and Björn Schürmann (Germany)

The working class in Belgian cinema, Gaëlle Debaisieux and Nicolas Guiot (Belgium)

Better conditions for women filmmakers in Sweden, Jesper Lindgren and Kristoffer Lieng (Sweden)

Media Ethics

Media ethics in Austria: “Die Kronenzeitung”, Diana Levin (Austria)

Against the current: “Voima” magazine, Lasse Lecklin and Susanna Okker (Finland)

Ethics in Hungarian media after 1989, Zoltan Aprily and Zsófia Hatala (Hungary)

II - SEMINAR DISCUSSIONS

Human Rights violations and censorship

Independent cinema and Human Rights

Media and monopolization

Alternative media