Pooja Rangan is professor of English in film and media studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (2017) and coeditor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (2023).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Listening with an Accent2. Listening in Crip Time3. Listening Like an AbolitionistCoda: Listening Without ImpactNotesBibliographyIndex

Understanding the act of listening in literal and metaphorical senses, The Documentary Audit consolidates Pooja Rangan’s position as a leading scholar of documentary media. Rangan moves across a diverse array of historical and contemporary materials to elaborate a new conceptual vocabulary—one that unsettles received ideas, asks hard questions concerning documentary’s political aspirations, and is sure to prove influential.

Pooja Rangan is professor of English in film and media studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (2017) and coeditor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (2023).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Listening with an Accent2. Listening in Crip Time3. Listening Like an AbolitionistCoda: Listening Without ImpactNotesBibliographyIndex

Understanding the act of listening in literal and metaphorical senses, The Documentary Audit consolidates Pooja Rangan’s position as a leading scholar of documentary media. Rangan moves across a diverse array of historical and contemporary materials to elaborate a new conceptual vocabulary—one that unsettles received ideas, asks hard questions concerning documentary’s political aspirations, and is sure to prove influential.

Pooja Rangan is professor of English in film and media studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (2017) and coeditor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (2023).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Listening with an Accent2. Listening in Crip Time3. Listening Like an AbolitionistCoda: Listening Without ImpactNotesBibliographyIndex

Understanding the act of listening in literal and metaphorical senses, The Documentary Audit consolidates Pooja Rangan’s position as a leading scholar of documentary media. Rangan moves across a diverse array of historical and contemporary materials to elaborate a new conceptual vocabulary—one that unsettles received ideas, asks hard questions concerning documentary’s political aspirations, and is sure to prove influential.