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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. His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary , applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time.

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   Bill Nichols. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Bill Nichols 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.

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   Documentary mode is a conceptual scheme developed by American documentary theorist Bill Nichols that seeks to distinguish particular traits and conventions of various documentary film styles. Nichols identifies six different documentary 'modes' in his schema: poetic, expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative.

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   Who is Bill Nichols?

   • 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.

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   What's new in Bill Nichols's 'I want to make a documentary'?

   • The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?"

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   What are Nichols''modes' in documentary film?

   • Nichols identifies six different documentary 'modes' in his schema: poetic, expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative. While Nichols' discussion of modes does progress chronologically with the order of their appearance in practice, documentary film often returns to themes and devices from previous modes.

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   What are Nichols concerns?

   • Where Nichols concerns are broad and include history, style, technology & practice. Her concern is purely with properties of narrative structure. For example she states that; "observational is not a narrative form but a narrative style".

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   Mar 27, 2017 · Bill Nichols is Professor Emeritus of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary (IUP), Blurred Boundaries: Questions of...

7. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullLegitimation in documentary: modes of representation and ...

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   Jul 20, 2021 · A pioneer scholar in film studies, Bill Nichols is the first one to apply modern film theory to the study of documentary. Nichols (1991, 2017) identifies six modes of representation in documentary films. They are the expository, participatory, observational, performative, reflexive and poetic modes.

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8. philpapers.org › rec › NICSTW-2Bill Nichols, Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics ...

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   Pioneering film scholar Bill Nichols investigates the ways documentaries strive for accuracy and truthfulness and simultaneously fabricate a form that shapes reality. Such films may rely on reenactment to re-create the past, storytelling to provide satisfying narratives, and rhetorical figures such as metaphor or devices such as irony to make a ...

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   Dec 27, 2017 · Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Speaking Truths With Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary by Bill Nichols (review) Alex W. Bordino. Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Center for the Study of Film and History. Volume 47, Number 2, Winter 2017. pp. 55-56. 10.1353/flm.2017.0040. Review. View Citation.