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Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
Bill Nichols
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Description for Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
Paperback. Offers close readings of several provocative documentaries including Land without Bread, Restrepo, The Thin Blue Line, The Act of Killing, and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine as part of an examination of the layered approaches and delicate ethical balance demanded of documentary film-makers. Num Pages: 271 pages, 1. BIC Classification: APFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world we live in? In what ways do documentaries abide by or subvert ethical expectations? Are mockumentaries a form of subversion? Can the documentary be an aesthetic experience and at the same time have political or social impact? And how can such impacts be empirically measured[unk] 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 ... Read more
How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world we live in? In what ways do documentaries abide by or subvert ethical expectations? Are mockumentaries a form of subversion? Can the documentary be an aesthetic experience and at the same time have political or social impact? And how can such impacts be empirically measured[unk] 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520290402
SKU
V9780520290402
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About Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols is a leading authority on documentary film and the author or editor of a dozen books. His Introduction to Documentary is the standard text in this area. He lectures widely and consults often with documentary filmmakers on their projects.
Reviews for Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
There is a fluidity in Nichols' writing that gently forces us to see the blurred boundaries ...between all forms of visual expression. In reading these essays, one is often struck by how much is illuminated, not only within the boundaries of documentary film but into the historical, political, social and cultural world that provides the fertile ground where ideas ... Read more