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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. [1] 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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- Introduction to documentary (2010), Engaging Cinema (2010), The Cinema's Alchemist: The Films of Peter Forgacs (2011)
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.
Jan 30, 2004 · Fri, 01/30/2004. Tracing the Evolution of Documentary. By Ray Zone. Introduction to Documentary. By Bill Nichols. Indiana University Press. 226 pps. (paperbound), $19.95. ISBN #0-253-21469-6. Bill Nichols is a leading film theorist and a professor of cinema at San Francisco State University.
