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Book Salon with Pooja Rangan
The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
Assistant Professor of English in Film & Media Studies, Amherst College
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.
Discussants: Jennifer Bajorek, Amy Cox Hall, Jina Kim and Bernadine Mellis
Co-sponsored by the Department of English at Amherst College