Belinda Smaill proposes an original approach to documentary studies, examining how emotions such as pleasure, hope, pain, empathy, nostalgia or disgust are integral both to the representation of selfhood in documentary, and to the way documentaries circulate in the public sphere.

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BELINDA SMAILL is a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

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Acknowledgements PART I: DOCUMENTARY AND PLEASURE Introduction: Representation and Documentary Emotions Pleasure and Disgust: Desire and the Female Porn Star PART II: PAIN AND THE OTHER Injury, Identity and Recognition - Rize and Fix : The Story of an Addicted City Women, Pain and the Documentaries of Kim Longinotto PART III: THE LABOUR OF AUTHORSHIP: CARING AND MOURNING Loss and Care: Asian Australian Documentary Civic Love and Contemporary Dissent Documentary PART IV: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: HOPE AND NOSTALGIA Children, Futurity and Hope: Born into Brothels Nostalgia, Historical Time and Reality Television: The Idol Series Epilogue Notes Index