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The documentary : politics, emotion, culture / Belinda Smaill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke, U.K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: vii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230237517
  • 9780230237513
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.18 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.D6 S55 2010
Contents:
Part I. Documentary and Pleasure -- 1. Introduction: Representation and Documentary Emotion -- 2. Pleasure and Disgust: Desire and the Female Porn Star -- Part II. Pain and the Other -- 3. Injury, Identity and Recognition: Rize and Fix: The Story of an Addicted City -- 4. Women, Pain and the Documentaries of Kim Longinotto -- Part III. The Labour of Authorship: Caring and Mourning -- 5. Loss and Care: Asian Australian Documentary -- 6. Civic Love and Contemporary Dissent Documentary -- Part IV. Past, Present and Future: Hope and Nostalgia -- 7. Children, Futurity and Hope: Born into Brothels -- 8. Nostalgia, Historical Time and Reality Television: The Idol Series -- Epilogue.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

"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.

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