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Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary
Bill Nichols
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Description for Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary
Paperback. Offers a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AS; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
... 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 ... Read more
... 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Weight
525g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253206817
SKU
V9780253206817
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Reviews for Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary
[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 ... Read more
Sight and Sound ... the most important book on documentary film yet published.
Canadian Journal ... Read more