Soul of the Documentary
Hongisto, Ilona,
Soul of the Documentary Ilona Hongisto. - 1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
Frames of the photograph -- A documentary fable -- Making up legends -- Acts of resistance -- Moments of affection -- The primacy of feeling -- Epilogue: ethics of sustainability.
Open Access
In Soul of the Documentary, Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking about documentary cinema by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By close-reading a diverse body of films - from The Last Bolshevik to Grey Gardens - Hongisto shows how documentary cinema intervenes in the real by framing it and creatively contributes to its perpetual unfolding. The emphasis on framing brings new urgency to the doumentary tradition and its objectives, and provokes significant novel possibilities for thinking about the documentary's ethical and political potentials in the contemporary world. -- Provided by publisher.
9789048525294 9048525292
Dokumentärfilm.
Documentary films.
Documentary films--History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.D6 / H635 2015
070.1/8
Soul of the Documentary Ilona Hongisto. - 1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
Frames of the photograph -- A documentary fable -- Making up legends -- Acts of resistance -- Moments of affection -- The primacy of feeling -- Epilogue: ethics of sustainability.
Open Access
In Soul of the Documentary, Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking about documentary cinema by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By close-reading a diverse body of films - from The Last Bolshevik to Grey Gardens - Hongisto shows how documentary cinema intervenes in the real by framing it and creatively contributes to its perpetual unfolding. The emphasis on framing brings new urgency to the doumentary tradition and its objectives, and provokes significant novel possibilities for thinking about the documentary's ethical and political potentials in the contemporary world. -- Provided by publisher.
9789048525294 9048525292
Dokumentärfilm.
Documentary films.
Documentary films--History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.D6 / H635 2015
070.1/8