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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