Binding: Paperback
Description: The Documentary proposes that emotions such as pleasure hope pain empathy or nostalgia play a powerful role in the circulation and reception of documentaries. Emotion shapes how political issues and individuals are represented and perceived in documentary and it is crucial to how we engage with the vicissitudes of the public sphere. In the past documentary has been popularly perceived in ways that align it with education science history and the rational realm. This frame has never been adequate for understanding the broad array of styles and themes that can be seen in the documentary genre. Focusing on the question of subjectivity Smaill analyses different kinds of individuals that can be found in documentaries such as the female porn star the politically disenfranchised children or the documentary auteur. She envisages an interdisciplinary approach to documentary drawing on scholarship from not only film studies but also gender studies queer theory cultural theories of affect critical race studies political theory and psychoanalysis.
Title: The Documentary Politics Emotion Culture
Author(s): Smaill B.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9781137482518
Pages: 221 Pages, Vii, 221 P.
Publication Date: 11/30/2009
Category: Sociology