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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pooja RanganPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780822363552ISBN 10: 0822363550 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 09 June 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsPooja Rangan's incisive voice brings tremendous critical acumen and clarity to the interpretation of the humanitarian documentary impulse in global media now. A powerful and timely work, <i>Immediations</i> will undoubtedly exert a strong influence on film and media studies and will be widely read by those who care about the sentiment of benevolence and its mediated impacts for a long time to come. --Lisa Cartwright, author of Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child Author InformationPooja Rangan is Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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