Immediations by Pooja Rangan

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Summary

Pooja Rangan interrogates participatory documentary's humanitarian ethos of "giving a voice to the voiceless" in documentaries featuring marginalized subjects, showing how it reinforces the films' subjects as the "other" and reproduces definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking, being, and doing.

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Immediations by Pooja Rangan

Pooja Rangan interrogates participatory documentary's humanitarian ethos of giving a voice to the voiceless in documentaries featuring marginalized subjects, showing how it reinforces the films' subjects as the other and reproduces definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking, being, and doing.
“Rangan moves diagonally across disciplinary boundaries and media forms, tracing the past and future of theory and practice concerning participatory documentaryImmediations 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 *
Pooja Rangan is Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College.
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ISBN 13 9780822363712
ISBN 10 0822363712
Title Immediations
Author Pooja Rangan
Series A Camera Obscura Book
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Duke University Press
Year published 2017-06-09
Number of pages 264
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.