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Record Nr.

UNISA996379046703316

Autore

Hongisto Ilona

Titolo

Soul of the Documentary / Ilona Hongisto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2015

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]

©2015

ISBN

90-485-2529-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Disciplina

070.1/8

Soggetti

Dokumentärfilm

Documentary films

Documentary films - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frames of the photograph -- A documentary fable -- Making up legends -- Acts of resistance -- Moments of affection -- The primacy of feeling -- Epilogue: ethics of sustainability.

Sommario/riassunto

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.