Pooja Rangan

Immediations

The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363552
• ISBN-10: 0822363550
• Artikelnr.: 45608463

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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