Immediations - The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary

Informationen zum Autor Pooja Rangan is Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. Klappentext Pooja Rangan is Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. Zusammenfassung Pooja Rangan interrogates participatory documentary's humanitarian ethos of "giving a voice to the voiceless" in documentaries featuring marginalized subjects! showing how it reinforces the films' subjects as the "other" and reproduces definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking! being! and doing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations  ix Acknowledgments  xi Introduction. Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary  1 1. Feral Innocence: The Humanitarian Aesthetic of Dematerialized Child Labor  23 2. Bare Liveness: The Eyewitness to Catastrophe in the Age of Humanitarian Emergency  61 3. "Having a Voice": Toward an Autistic Counterdiscourse of Documentary  103 4. The Documentary Art of Surrender: Humane-itarian and Posthumanist Encounters with Animals  151 Conclusion. The Gift of Documentary  191 Notes  197 Bibliography  223 Index  241

Product details

• Authors: Pooja Rangan
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780822363552
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6355-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Camera Obscura Book; a Camera Obscura book; A Camera Obscura Book; Camera Obscura Book
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet