{"product_id":"the-documentary-audit-listening-and-the-limits-of-accountability-paperback","title":"The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePooja Rangan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocumentary films are often celebrated with aural metaphors: they give \"voice\" to the \"voiceless\" and ask the public to \"listen.\" But when did listening become synonymous with social justice? How exactly do documentaries train audiences to listen when they ask them to right historic wrongs or hold power to account? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Documentary Audit\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the association of listening with accountability and charts oppositional modes of listening otherwise. Pooja Rangan develops a framework for understanding how documentary practices have, under the mantle of accountability, provided a moral cover for listening habits that are used to profile, exclude, and incarcerate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the British Crown's promotional films to Zoom meeting recordings, from disability-informed filmmaking in Japan to forensic efforts to expose anti-Palestinian violence in Hebron, Rangan explores how historical and contemporary practitioners have challenged and refused the lures of normative documentary listening habits in order to listen with an accent, listen in crip time, and listen like an abolitionist. Through an interdisciplinary approach that bridges documentary and sound studies while considering raciolinguistics, disability access, and legal forensics, Rangan demonstrates how the question of listening is central to the study of documentary. Far from being a neutral ethic, \u003ci\u003eThe Documentary Audit\u003c\/i\u003e shows, listening creates the reality it purports to verify--with transformative political possibilities.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePooja Rangan is professor of English in film and media studies at Amherst College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eImmediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64801919828317,"sku":"9780231217989","price":75.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/5558\/2813\/files\/QjrNKu1uBo9780231217989.webp?v=1779864666","url":"https:\/\/novellybooks.com\/products\/the-documentary-audit-listening-and-the-limits-of-accountability-paperback","provider":"Novelly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}