Rangan Immediations

The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7310-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: a Camera Obscura Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rangan, Pooja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Pooja Rangan is Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College.