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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.

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

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

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“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.” - Joel Neville Anderson (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.” - Almudena Escobar López (Film Quarterly) "Pooja Rangan’s Immediations is a provocative, polemical, and vital book for thinking through the often problematic humanitarian impulse to give the camera to the Other. . . . Immediations is a bold, refreshing book that I simply cannot stop thinking about." - Ryan Watson (Cinema Journal)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822363552
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Series Title: A Camera Obscura Book
  • Weight: 548 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822363550
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Sub Title: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
  • Width: 152 mm


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