The documentary : politics, emotion, culture /

Smaill, Belinda,

The documentary : politics, emotion, culture / Belinda Smaill. - vii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Documentary and Pleasure -- Introduction: Representation and Documentary Emotion -- Pleasure and Disgust: Desire and the Female Porn Star -- Pain and the Other -- Injury, Identity and Recognition: Rize and Fix: The Story of an Addicted City -- Women, Pain and the Documentaries of Kim Longinotto -- The Labour of Authorship: Caring and Mourning -- Loss and Care: Asian Australian Documentary -- Civic Love and Contemporary Dissent Documentary -- Past, Present and Future: Hope and Nostalgia -- Children, Futurity and Hope: Born into Brothels -- Nostalgia, Historical Time and Reality Television: The Idol Series -- Epilogue. Part I. 1. 2. Part II. 3. 4. Part III. 5. 6. Part IV. 7. 8.

"An exploration of the role of emotion and affect in contemporary documentary film, arguing that analysis of the sociality of the emotions is integral to advancing our understanding of the formulation of selfhood in documentary. Belinda Smaill also examines documentary's political function, looking at issues such as gender, ethnicity and class"--Provided by publisher.

0230237517 9780230237513

2009044936


Documentary films--History and criticism
Documentary films--Political aspects

PN1995.9.D6 / S55 2010

070.18

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