Article:
Sweeping changes in Eastern Europe: The documentary frame in Gerd Kroske’s ‘Kehraus’ trilogy (1990-2006)

Simple item page
dc.creatorHongisto, Ilona
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:22:26Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:22:26Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractSeeking to expand established notions of documentary cinema, this essay suggests that the indexical, the evidentiary, and the representational are not enough to account for the work of documentary cinema in the real. Drawing on Gerd Kroske’s KEHRAUS trilogy (1990, 1997, 2006) on the lives of street sweepers in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the essay proposes that documentary cinema be considered ‘an aesthetics of the frame’. The argument of the essay builds on the ways in which the three films relate the visible and the audible in the frame to what is left out. The outside of the frame becomes a defining element in how the documentaries capture and express the enfoldment of the Post-Wall transition period to the lives of the protagonists. Through analysing the technological, stylistic, and contextual qualities of the documentary frame in the three films, the essay draws attention to the frame’s embeddedness in the politics of recognition and in processes of actualisation. Instead of locating Kroske’s longitudinal project within the tradition of the indexical chronicle, the essay shows how the trilogy pushes reality to actualise.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3381
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/sweeping-changes-eastern-europe-documentary-frame-gerd-kroskes-kehraus-trilogy-1990-2006/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4150
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectÄsthetikde
dc.subjectRahmende
dc.subjectSerialitätde
dc.subjectWiedererkennungde
dc.subjectactualisationen
dc.subjectaestheticsen
dc.subjectframeen
dc.subjectlongitudinal documentaryen
dc.subjectrecognitionen
dc.subjectserialityen
dc.subjecttrueen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personGerd Kroske
dc.subject.workKEHRAUS
dc.subject.workKEHREIN, KEHRAUS
dc.subject.workKEHRAUS, WIEDER
dc.titleSweeping changes in Eastern Europe: The documentary frame in Gerd Kroske’s ‘Kehraus’ trilogy (1990-2006)en
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHongisto, Ilona (2017): Sweeping changes in Eastern Europe: The documentary frame in Gerd Kroske’s ‘Kehraus’ trilogy (1990-2006). In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 6 (1), 125–144. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3381.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:30
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/sweeping-changes-eastern-europe-documentary-frame-gerd-kroskes-kehraus-trilogy-1990-2006/
local.source.epage144
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage125
local.source.volume6
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/141364688
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1510623
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1737852
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27309074
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27309075
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27309076

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
NECSUS_2017_6_1_125-143_Hongisto_Kroskes_Kehraus_trilogy_.pdf
Size:
539.38 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Original PDF with additional cover page.
Download

Collections

2017/1 – #True