Honeyland
A Docalogue
Jaimie Baron editor Kristen Fuhs editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:9th Oct '24
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The fourth volume in the Docalogue series, this book explores the significance of the documentary Honeyland (2019) in relation to documentary ethics, the representation of human and animal relations, environmental studies, genre theory, and documentary distribution.
The film, focused on a Turkish-speaking woman in Macedonia who cultivates bees to produce honey through an ancient and environmentally sustainable method, raises important questions about the place of humans and economic activity within the broader ecosystem. The documentary also prompts critical reflection about the relationship between observation and storytelling, how the film festival circuit allows certain films to reach a wide audience, the ethics of ethnographic representation, the relationship between human and insect life, and to what extent film can allow us to experience others’ life-worlds. By combining five distinct critical perspectives on a single documentary, this book acts both as an intensive scholarly treatment of the film and as a guide for how to analyze, theorize, and contextualize a documentary text.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of documentary studies, as well as those studying film and media more broadly.
ISBN: 9780367644550
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 222g
120 pages