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Bill Nichols - Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture - 9780253209009 - V9780253209009
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Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture

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Description for Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture Paperback. Explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth, and falsehood blur. This book argues that a history of social representation in film, television, and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.

Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253209009
SKU
V9780253209009
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About Bill Nichols
BILL NICHOLS is Professor of Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University. He has edited two widely used anthologies, Movies and Methods I and II, and is the author of Ideology and the Image and Representing Reality.

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