Point Of No Return: Dope Sick Love and Reindeerspotting as Documentaries of Addiction
In this postgraduate thesis the focus is on two documentary films, Renaud Brothers's Dope Sick Love (2005) and Joonas Neuvonen's Reindeerspotting (2010). In both of these films, addicts are on limelight. The directors of both films follow addicts and their everyday lives on streets with ha...
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ftunivturku:oai:www.utupub.fi:10024/98961 2024-09-15T18:25:42+00:00 Point Of No Return: Dope Sick Love and Reindeerspotting as Documentaries of Addiction Rosten, Laura Maria Humanistinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Humanities Mediatutkimus, Media Studies Historian, kulttuurin ja taiteiden tutkimuksen laitos, School of History, Cultural Research and Art Studies Historian, taiteiden ja kulttuurintutkimuksen laitos. Mediatutkimus 2014-09-19 fulltext http://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/98961 eng eng Turun yliopisto, University of Turku http://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/98961 URN:NBN:fi-fe2014091844786 avoin Pro gradu -tutkielma, Master's thesis 2014 ftunivturku 2024-08-01T03:14:27Z In this postgraduate thesis the focus is on two documentary films, Renaud Brothers's Dope Sick Love (2005) and Joonas Neuvonen's Reindeerspotting (2010). In both of these films, addicts are on limelight. The directors of both films follow addicts and their everyday lives on streets with handheld cameras. This thesis will analyze and compare the narratives of these addicts. Do these documentaries affirm to the existing conventions, according to which representations of addicts and addiction are always either miraculous survival stories or stories, which always end up in utter decadence. The main questions this thesis proposes, are how addicts and their narratives are being handled in the two case study films, and how the drug cultures depicted in the films differ from each other. What changes between New York City and Rovaniemi, Northern Finland, and what remains the same. The academic and theoretical framework of this thesis consists of Susanna Helke's doctoral thesis Nanookin jälki, where the history of documentary films' methods and approaches are discussed. Additionally, the thinking is heavily informed by such poststructuralist writers as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Stuart Hall and Chris Weedon. Tässä pro gradu-tutkielmassa keskitytään vertailemaan ja analysoimaan kahta dokumenttielokuvaa, Renaudin veljesten Dope Sick Lovea (2005) ja Joonas Neuvosen Reindeerspottingia (2010). Molemmissa elokuvissa keskiössä ovat addiktit, joiden jokapäiväistä elämää ohjaajat seuraavat kaduilla kameroidensa kanssa. Tutkielma keskittyykin vertailemaan ja erittelemään addiktien tarinoita ja narratiiveja. Vahvistavatko dokumentaarit omilta osiltaan vallitsevia konventioita, joiden mukaan narkomaanien ja huumeriippuvuuden kuvaukset ovat joko ihmeellisiä selviytymistarinoita tai täydellisiä rappiotarinoita. Pro gradu-tutkielman keskeisiksi tutkimuskysymyksi nousee siis, miten addiktien narratiiveja käsitellään kahdessa esimerkkielokuvissa, ja miten dokumentaarien kuvaamat huumekulttuurit poikkeavat ... Other/Unknown Material Northern Finland Rovaniemi University of Turku: UTUPub |
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In this postgraduate thesis the focus is on two documentary films, Renaud Brothers's Dope Sick Love (2005) and Joonas Neuvonen's Reindeerspotting (2010). In both of these films, addicts are on limelight. The directors of both films follow addicts and their everyday lives on streets with handheld cameras. This thesis will analyze and compare the narratives of these addicts. Do these documentaries affirm to the existing conventions, according to which representations of addicts and addiction are always either miraculous survival stories or stories, which always end up in utter decadence. The main questions this thesis proposes, are how addicts and their narratives are being handled in the two case study films, and how the drug cultures depicted in the films differ from each other. What changes between New York City and Rovaniemi, Northern Finland, and what remains the same. The academic and theoretical framework of this thesis consists of Susanna Helke's doctoral thesis Nanookin jälki, where the history of documentary films' methods and approaches are discussed. Additionally, the thinking is heavily informed by such poststructuralist writers as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Stuart Hall and Chris Weedon. Tässä pro gradu-tutkielmassa keskitytään vertailemaan ja analysoimaan kahta dokumenttielokuvaa, Renaudin veljesten Dope Sick Lovea (2005) ja Joonas Neuvosen Reindeerspottingia (2010). Molemmissa elokuvissa keskiössä ovat addiktit, joiden jokapäiväistä elämää ohjaajat seuraavat kaduilla kameroidensa kanssa. Tutkielma keskittyykin vertailemaan ja erittelemään addiktien tarinoita ja narratiiveja. Vahvistavatko dokumentaarit omilta osiltaan vallitsevia konventioita, joiden mukaan narkomaanien ja huumeriippuvuuden kuvaukset ovat joko ihmeellisiä selviytymistarinoita tai täydellisiä rappiotarinoita. Pro gradu-tutkielman keskeisiksi tutkimuskysymyksi nousee siis, miten addiktien narratiiveja käsitellään kahdessa esimerkkielokuvissa, ja miten dokumentaarien kuvaamat huumekulttuurit poikkeavat ... |
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