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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| Main Author: | Jasmin Humburg |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/223 |
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