In this Book
- Soul of the Documentary: Framing, Expression, Ethics
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Soul of the Documentary offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking 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 documentary tradition and its objectives, and provokes significant novel possibilities for thinking about the documentary's ethical and political potentials in the contemporary world.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 7-10
- Imagination: Relational documents
- pp. 25-30
- 1. Frames of the photograph
- pp. 31-48
- 2. A documentary fable
- pp. 49-64
- Fabulation: Documentary visions
- pp. 65-70
- 3. Making up legends
- pp. 71-82
- 4. Acts of resistance
- pp. 83-98
- Affection: Documenting the potential
- pp. 99-106
- 5. Moments of affection
- pp. 107-118
- 6. The primacy of feeling
- pp. 119-134
- Epilogue: Ethics of sustainability
- pp. 135-138
- Works cited
- pp. 167-174
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048525294
Related ISBN(s)
9789089647559
MARC Record
OCLC
1162990454
Pages
180
Launched on MUSE
2020-07-06
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC
Copyright
2015