From the Other Half to the Down and Out: Reflections on Poverty in the Documentary Mode
This article investigates how poverty is negotiated in the social documentary mode. By considering the work of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine as well as scrutinizing two HBO documentaries, Down and Out in America“ (1985) and American Winter“ (2013), I argue that there is a continuous disparity between th...
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| description | This article investigates how poverty is negotiated in the social documentary mode. By considering the work of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine as well as scrutinizing two HBO documentaries, Down and Out in America“ (1985) and American Winter“ (2013), I argue that there is a continuous disparity between those who represent and those who are being represented. I will exemplify how this imbalance is facilitated through visual rhetoric and narrative form in documentary representations of poverty. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9ef6220a4fb9445096d02400f74ae5e92024-11-15T07:29:53ZengRegensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und AmerikanistikCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies1861-61272015-05-0116110.5283/copas.223From the Other Half to the Down and Out: Reflections on Poverty in the Documentary ModeJasmin Humburg0Universität HamburgThis article investigates how poverty is negotiated in the social documentary mode. By considering the work of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine as well as scrutinizing two HBO documentaries, Down and Out in America“ (1985) and American Winter“ (2013), I argue that there is a continuous disparity between those who represent and those who are being represented. I will exemplify how this imbalance is facilitated through visual rhetoric and narrative form in documentary representations of poverty. https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/223PovertyDocumentaryPhotographyTelevision |
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| title | From the Other Half to the Down and Out: Reflections on Poverty in the Documentary Mode |
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| title_sort | from the other half to the down and out reflections on poverty in the documentary mode |
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