{"product_id":"immediations-9780822363552","title":"Immediations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePooja 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rangan moves diagonally across disciplinary boundaries and media forms, tracing the past and future of theory and practice concerning participatory documentary. \u003ci\u003eImmediations\u003c\/i\u003e offers substantial theoretical matrices for scholars to contend with going forward, and new challenges for interdisciplinary practitioners.” -- Joel Neville Anderson * Visual Studies Workshop *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eImmediations\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Pooja Rangan’s \u003ci\u003eImmediations\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative, polemical, and vital book for thinking through the often problematic humanitarian impulse to give the camera to the Other. . . . \u003ci\u003eImmediations\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold, refreshing book that I simply cannot stop thinking about.\" -- Ryan Watson * Cinema Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Feral Innocence: The Humanitarian Aesthetic of Dematerialized Child Labor  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bare Liveness: The Eyewitness to Catastrophe in the Age of Humanitarian Emergency  61\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Having a Voice\": Toward an Autistic Counterdiscourse of Documentary  103\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Documentary Art of Surrender: Humane-itarian and Posthumanist Encounters with Animals  151\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Gift of Documentary  191\u003cbr\u003e Notes  197\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  223\u003cbr\u003e Index  241","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406101881175,"sku":"9780822363552","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822363552.jpg?v=1730494534","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/immediations-9780822363552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}