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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Documentary and Pleasure
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Pain and the Other
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The Labour of Authorship: Caring and Mourning
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Past, Present and Future: Hope and Nostalgia
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Epilogue
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'Smaill's excellence lies in knowing what she's doing: examining how emotion is both presented and evoked in and by documentary for political ends. This fluid conception of politics is deeply imbricated with feminist and other movement politics that assume affect is part of political motion, something that incorporates the agenda of change. That movement might be uncertain, in need of constant correction, but it is also affirmative and embodied, in the maker, in the film, and in the audience and social world.' Chuck Kleinhans, Jump Cut
'Smaill covers very diverse subject material in an engaging and accessible manner. Her references extend far beyond the world of the big screen: rather than furrow through documentary film theory, the author draws on multidisciplinary sources to explore the idea of emotion, including the psychoanalytical perspectives of Melanie Klein and the linguistic articulations of Elaine Scarry.' - New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 8.1
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Documentary
Book Subtitle: Politics, Emotion, Culture
Authors: Belinda Smaill
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230251113
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23751-3Published: 30 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48251-8Published: 30 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-25111-3Published: 30 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 221
Topics: Media Studies, Screen Studies, Film History, Directing, Media Research, Cultural Studies