Honeyland

A Docalogue

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Edited by Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Honeyland

Keywords

documentary

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Docalogue

1st publishing

2022

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 120 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-64455-0

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
Jaimie Baron is a Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020), and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also the director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos. Kristen Fuhs is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Woodbury University. She writes about documentary film, the American criminal justice system, and contemporary celebrity, and her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, and the Journal of Sport & Social Issues.

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