Representing Reality
Issues and Concepts in Documentary
Bill Nichols
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Representing Reality
Issues and Concepts in Documentary
Bill Nichols
About This Book
"... a valuable and important book..." âThe Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
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.
"[Nichols] has written a road-block of a book which reconfigures the debate on the documentary at a new level of sophistication and complexity which can only be ignored at the risk of ignoring the whole area of documentary film." âSight and Sound
"... the most important book on documentary film yet published." âCanadian Journal of Film Studies