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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... Read more
Acknowledgments, VISIONS Chapter 3: Making up legends Chapter 4: Acts of resistance PART 3 AFFECTION: DOCUMENTING THE POTENTIAL Chapter 5: Moments of affection Chapter 6: The primacy of feeling Epilogue: ethics of sustainability, Notes, Works Cited, Index.
Biography
Ilona Hongisto is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Media Studies at The University of Turku, Finland, and an Honorary Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Australia
