Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary

by Pooja Rangan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822363550
• ISBN13: 9780822363552
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"