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Soul of the Documentary: Framing, Expression, Ethics

By Ilona Hongisto

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9089647554, 9789089647559
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1481565 bytes)
Pages
180\179
Time added
2016-11-15 22:05:58
Film & Video Art;Photography & Video;Arts & Photog

Description

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 closely 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.

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