BOOKS - Soul of the Documentary: Framing, Expression, Ethics
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609788
609788
Soul of the Documentary: Framing, Expression, Ethics
Author: Ilona Hongisto
Year: February 15, 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 780 KB
Language: English
Year: February 15, 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 780 KB
Language: English
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.