Introduction to documentary
- Bill Nichols
- Art
- 2001
This new edition of Bill Nichols's bestselling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism and identifies the distinguishing qualities of documentary and teaches the viewer how to read documentary film.
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary
- Bill Nichols
- Art
- 22 February 1992
"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…
Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture
- Bill Nichols
- History
- 1994
Preface Acknowledgments I. Embodied Knowledge and the Politics of Location An Evocation II. The Trials and Tribulations of Rodney King III. At the Limits of Reality (TV) IV. The EthnographerOs Tale…
Documentary Reenactment and the Fantasmatic Subject
- Bill Nichols
- ArtCritical Inquiry
- 1 September 2008
Reenactments, the more or less authentic re-creation of prior events, provided a staple element of documentary representation until they were slain by the “verite boys” of the 1960s (Robert Drew,…
Documentary Film and the Modernist Avant-Garde
- Bill Nichols
- ArtCritical Inquiry
- 1 July 2001
How is it that the most formal and, often, the most abstract of films and the most political, and sometimes, didactic of films arise, fruitfully intermingle, and then separate in a common historical…
Discovering Form, Inferring Meaning: New Cinemas and the Film Festival Circuit
- Bill Nichols
- Art
- 1 April 1994
How do we encounter cinemas, and cultures, not our own? One of the latest "discoveries" on the international film festival circuit, postrevolutionary cinema from Iran, occasions this question.' (The…
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