Soul of the documentary : framing, expression, ethics / Ilona Hongisto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hongisto, Ilona, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]

Summary:

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 documentary tradition and its objectives, and provokes significant novel possibilities for thinking about the documentary's ethical and political potentials in the contemporary world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Imagination: Relational documents 25

1 Frames of the photograph 31

2 A documentary fable 49

Fabulation: Documentary visions 65

3 Making up legends 71

4 Acts of resistance 83

Affection: Documenting the potential 99

5 Moments of affection 107

6 The primacy of feeling 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789089647559

9089647554

OCLC:

919483066