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Ilona
Hongisto
Docent, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies
PhD, Docent
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Areas of expertise
Film studies
media studies
documentary cinema
experimental cinema
Eastern European film
film festivals
creative industries
new materialism
process philosophy
powers of the false
fabulation
aesthetics
media theory
Biography
Ilona Hongisto is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney; Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Media Theory and Aesthetics at the University of Turku, Finland; and Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Documentary Film at Aalto University, Finland. Hongisto works across film and media studies, specializing in documentary cinema. Her most recent work focuses on fabulation in post-1989 Eastern European documentary cinema. Her publications include the monograph Soul of the Documentary: Framing, Expression, Ethics (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) and peer-reviewed articles in such journals as Studies in Documentary Film, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Cultural Studies Review, and Transformations.
Publications
"The Invention of Northeastern Europe: The Geopolitics of Programming at Documentary Film Festivals" (2020)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Realities in the making: the ethics of fabulation in observational documentary cinema (2018)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Introduction: The ring of the true in contemporary media (2017)
NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
True (2017)
(Toimitustyö tieteelliselle lehdelle, kokoomateokselle tai konferenssijulkaisulle (C2))Sweeping changes in Eastern Europe: the documentary frame in Gerd Kroske's 'Kehraus' trilogy (1990-2006) (2017)
NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Esipuhe: Muuri ja murros (2016)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Impossible objectivity: free indirect perspectives in Finnish documentary cinema (2016)
Studies in Documentary Film
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))