Description: Immediations : The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary, Hardcover by Rangan, Pooja, ISBN 0822363550, ISBN-13 9780822363552, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Immediations : The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Immediations : the Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Film / Genres / Documentary, Philanthropy & Charity, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Pooja Rangan
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: A Camera Obscura Book Ser.
Format: Hardcover
