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

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 do...

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Main Author: Hongisto, Ilona (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Imagination: Relational documents; 1. Frames of the photograph; 2. A documentary fable; Fabulation: Documentary visions; 3. Making up legends; 4. Acts of resistance; Affection: Documenting the potential; 5. Moments of affection; 6. The primacy of feeling; Epilogue: Ethics of sustainability; Notes; Works cited; Index.