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Representing reality : issues and concepts in documentary
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ISBN: 0253206812 9780253206817 0253340608 Year: 1991 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press

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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.

Introduction to documentary
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ISBN: 9780253214690 0253214696 Year: 2001 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture
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ISBN: 0253209005 Year: 1994 Publisher: Bloomington (IN) : Indiana University Press,

Movies and methods: an anthology
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ISBN: 0520054091 0520031512 0520028902 0520054083 Year: 1976 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press


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Engaging cinema : an introduction to film studies
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ISBN: 9780393934915 0393934918 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York W. W. Norton & Co.


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Introduction to documentary.
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ISBN: 9780253222602 9780253355560 0253355567 0253222605 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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This book provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important topics and issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, from the law to anthropology, and from history to journalism, this book spells out the distinguishing qualities of documentary. A wide-ranging and freewheeling form of filmmaking, documentary has not yet received a proper, written introduction to its public, or its future makers. Introduction to Documentary is not organized as a history of the form although its examples span a century of filmmaking. Instead, this book offers suggestive answers to basic issues that have stood at the center of all debate on documentary from its very beginnings to today. Each chapter takes up a distinct question from "How did documentary filmmaking get started?" to "Why are ethical issues central to documentary?" These questions move through issues of ethics, form, modes, voice, history and politics, among others. A final chapter addresses the question of how to write about documentary in a clear, convincing manner. Introduction to Documentary provides the foundational key to further explorations in this exceptionally vital area of filmmaking today.


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Ideology and the image : social representation in the cinema and other media
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ISBN: 0253182875 0253202566 Year: 1981 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press


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Introduction to Documentary
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ISBN: 9780253026859 9780253026347 9780253026903 0253026903 0253026342 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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The third edition of Bill Nichols’s text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, Introduction to Documentary identifies the genre’s distinguishing qualities and teaches the viewer how to read documentary film. Each chapter takes up a discrete question, from "How did documentary filmmaking get started?" to "Why are ethical issues central to documentary filmmaking?" Here Nichols has fully rewritten each chapter for greater clarity and ease of use, including revised discussions of earlier films and new commentary on dozens of recent films from The Cove to The Act of Killing and from Gasland to Restrepo. -- Publisher.


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Speaking Truths with Film : Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
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ISBN: 9780520290396 9780520290402 9780520964587 0520290399 0520290402 0520964586 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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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? 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 re-create the past, storytelling to provide satisfying narratives, and rhetorical figures such as metaphor or devices such as irony to make a point. Documentaries are truly a fiction unlike any other. With clarity and passion, Nichols offers incisive commentaries on the basic questions of documentary's distinct relationship to the reality it represents, as well as close readings of provocative documentaries from this form's earliest days to its most recent incarnations. These essays offer a definitive account of what makes documentary film such a vital part of our cultural landscape.

Introduction to documentary.
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ISBN: 1282065998 0253108527 9780253108524 0253339545 9780253339546 0253214696 9780253214690 9781282065994 Year: 2001 Publisher: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press,

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Introduction to Documentary provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important topics and issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, from the law to anthropology, and from history to journalism, this book spells out the distinguishing qualities of documentary. A wide-ranging and freewheeling form of filmmaking, documentary has not yet received a proper, written introduction to its public, or its futur

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