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Bill Nichols. 1991. Published by: Indiana University Press. View. summary. ". . . a valuable and important book . . ." —The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Representing Reality is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice.
Jan 30, 2004 · Taking advantage of advances in film theory from the 1970s and 1980s, Nichols used an array of rhetorical tools for the documentary that are usually reserved for the fiction film. Rather than a general survey, Representing Reality was an attempt to create a conceptual overview of the documentary by examining its styles, strategies and structures.
Feb 22, 1992 · Bill Nichols. Published 22 February 1992. History, Art. "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.
(Nichols 2001: 107) The engagement of rhetoric with supporting visual information founded in the expositional mode continues today and, indeed, makes up the bulk of documentary product. Film features, news stories, and various television programs lean heavily on its utility as a device for transferring information.
Feb 4, 2020 · Abstract. The documentary film has seen many experimental approaches taken to its form, presentation, and technology since its inception as a social change method of persuasion. This chapter examines the seven modes of the documentary as identified by Bill Nichols along with Michael Renov’s four functions of documentary.
- Mark Terry
- marktery@yorku.ca
- 2020
Aug 29, 2017 · Bill Nichols 6 Modes of Documentary. Expository Mode. This tends to be the mode most familiar to us. It is frequently used in nature and TV documentaries. Expository documentaries use the ‘voice of God’ narration where by the author provides a scripted commentary to accompany or illustrate visuals.
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Apr 5, 2016 · Pioneering film scholar Bill Nichols investigates the ways documentaries strive for accuracy and truthfulness and simultaneously fabricate a form that shapes reality. Such...
