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Representing Reality theorizes documentary in all-round perspectives. Bill Nichols is full of words and empty of thought.

Representing Reality theorizes documentary in all-round perspectives. Among others, I think this book is important especially in that it raises the question of reality per se. Documentary has always been marginal not only in discourse but also in cinema industry, under the poor understanding of reality. You need a machete to slash through the tangled sentences in this book, and what you'll find beneath are simplistic, flawed ideas that aren't developed but buried under more verbiage.

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Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film

Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film. His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time. It has been followed by scores of books by others and by additional books and essays by Nichols. The first volume of his two-volume anthology Movies and Methods (1976, 1985) helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline.

Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary. It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique

Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary.

Representing Reality is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice. It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique. The volume poses questions about the relationship of the documentary tradition to power, the body, authority, knowledge, and our experience of history. This study advances the pioneering work of Nichols's earlier book, Ideology and the Image.

It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative . This study advances the pioneering work of Nichols's earlier book, Ideology and the Image

It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique.

His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied .

His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time. Bill Nichols is Professor Emeritus in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University and Chair of the Documentary Film Institute advisory board. The Subject of Documentary. The Living Documentary: from representing reality to co-creating reality in digital interactive documentary. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota. Repas De Bèbeè Auguste and Louis Lumiére, 1895.

Introduction to Documentary provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important topics and issues in documentary history and criticism

Introduction to Documentary provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important topics and issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, from the law to anthropology, and from history to journalism, this book spells out the distinguishing qualities of documentary. A wide-ranging and freewheeling form of filmmaking, documentary has not yet received a proper, written introduction to its public, or its future makers. Introduction to Documentary is not organized as a history of the form although its.

His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the . Nichols was a professor in the Cinema Department of San Francisco State University, from 1987 to 2013. He has also lectured in numerous countries, served on film festival juries on different continents, consults regularly on a variety of filmmaking projects, and has published over 100 articles.