SPEAK THROUGH THE SCREEN: IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR PUBLISHES BOOK ON CONFLICT THROUGH FILMS

POCATELLO, Idaho, Nov. 2 -- Idaho State University issued the following news release:

Idaho and Peru have a few things in common: beautiful mountains, lots of potatoes and rich indigenous cultures. Peru, however, has a much different history.

María Claudia Huerta Vera, an assistant professor of Spanish in Idaho State University's Department of Anthropology and Languages, recently published a new book on the legacy of Peru's internal armed conflict and the role of film during this period of history, titled "Cine Rebelde: Documentales y conflicto armado interno en el Peru" (Rebel Cinema: Documentaries and internal armed conflict in Peru).

As Huerta Vera explains, the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict describes the political violence be...