Soul of the Documentary : Framing, Expression, Ethics /

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]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.