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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.
Bill Nichols. 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. He's served as a documentary filmmaking consultant, lecturer, film festival ...
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Bill Nichols. edit data. 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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Jan 30, 2004 · 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. With two previous books from Indiana University Press—Representing Reality, Issues and Concepts in Documentary (1992) and Blurred Boundaries, Questions of Meaning in ...
Jan 21, 2016 · Students, though, can be forgiven if they are eager to follow in his footsteps. Nichols, as a grad student in the 1970s, was part of the birth of modern film studies and literally wrote the book on documentary film studies. He’s taught film classes for decades and not only mentors students, but also professional documentary filmmakers.
Bill Nichols (1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film. Works. Newsreel: Documentary Filmmaking on the American Left, New York: Arno Press, 1980.
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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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