Despite its power, the entertainment industry documentary genre is not without ethical problems. Many such films are produced by the very corporations they claim to critique (e.g., Netflix producing a documentary about toxic workplace culture at Netflix). Additionally, the posthumous documentary (such as Whitney [2018] or Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck [2015]) raises questions of consent: can the dead be exploited again in the name of exposing exploitation? Finally, some critics argue that these documentaries risk becoming a form of “trauma porn,” where audiences consume the suffering of child stars or pop singers for entertainment—replicating the very voyeurism they condemn.
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