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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 ‘...
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oapen-20.500.12657-329602022-04-26T11:19:04Z Soul of the Documentary. Framing, Expression, Ethics Hongisto, Ilona ethics experimentation immanence documentary aesthetics bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism ‘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. 2015-12-31 23:55:55 2019-12-10 14:46:32 2020-04-01T14:25:11Z 2020-04-01T14:25:11Z 2015 book 579464 OCN: 945783745 9789089647559 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32960 eng application/pdf n/a 579464.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789089647559 10.5117/9789089647559 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789089647559 open access |
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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. |
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