Soul of the documentary : framing, expression, ethics

• Tác giả: Ilona Hongisto
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 9089647554
• ISBN-13: 978-9089647559
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 070.18 Motion pictures
• Thông tin xuất bản: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: 178 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 c
• Bộ sưu tập: Công nghệ thông tin
• ID: 156921
• Chủ đề: 1. Documentary films--History and criticism; 2. Documentary films; 3. Dokumentärfilm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index

Tóm tắt

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