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Duke University Press Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (A Camera Obscura book)

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Endangered life is often used to justify humanitarian media intervention, but what if suffering humanity is both the fuel and outcome of such media representations? Pooja Rangan argues that this vicious circle is the result of immediation, a prevailing documentary ethos that seeks to render human suffering urgent and immediate at all costs. Rangan interrogates this ethos in films seeking to “give a voice to the voiceless,” an established method of validating the humanity of marginalized subjects, including children, refugees, autistics, and animals. She focuses on multiple examples of documentary subjects being invited to demonstrate their humanity: photography workshops for the children of sex workers in Calcutta; live eyewitness reporting by Hurricane Katrina survivors; attempts to facilitate speech in nonverbal autistics; and painting lessons for elephants. These subjects are obliged to represent themselves using immediations—tropes that reinforce their status as the “other” and reproduce definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking, being, and doing. To counter these effects, Rangan calls for an approach to media that aims not to humanize but to realize the full, radical potential of giving the camera to the other. Review “Rangan moves diagonally across disciplinary boundaries and media forms, tracing the past and future of theory and practice concerning participatory documentary. Immediations offers substantial theoretical matrices for scholars to contend with going forward, and new challenges for interdisciplinary practitioners.” Author: Joel Neville Anderson Source: Visual Studies Workshop “ Immediations marks an important contribution to documentary and anthropology studies, making exemplary use of multidisciplinary research to explore more deeply the human power structures and their relationship to the politics of representation.” Author: Almudena Escobar López Source: Film Quarterly Review "Pooja 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, Immediations 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." Author: Lisa Cartwright, author of Source: Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child From the Author Pooja Rangan is Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. About the Author Pooja Rangan is Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College.

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Brand: Duke University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0822363550
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > Genres > Documentaries
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 June 2017
Listed Since: 04 August 2016

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