Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary

". . . 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. 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." —Sight and Sound

" . . . the most important book on documentary film yet published." —Canadian Journal of Film Studies

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Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary

". . . 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. 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." —Sight and Sound

" . . . the most important book on documentary film yet published." —Canadian Journal of Film Studies

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Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary

Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary

by Bill Nichols
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary

Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary

by Bill Nichols

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". . . 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. 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." —Sight and Sound

" . . . the most important book on documentary film yet published." —Canadian Journal of Film Studies


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253013378
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 02/22/1992
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years
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