Documentary Audit - Listening and the Limits of Accountability

Pooja Rangan develops a framework for understanding how documentary practices have, under the mantle of accountability, provided a moral cover for listening habits that are used to profile, exclude, and incarcerate.

About the author

Pooja Rangan is professor of English in film and media studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (2017) and coeditor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (2023).

Product details

• Authors: Pooja Rangan
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.07.2025
• EAN: 9780231217972
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21797-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Political activism, Documentary films, Social issues & processes, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Social and ethical issues, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement