Items related to Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary

Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary - Softcover

Nichols, Bill

 
9780253206817: Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253206812 ISBN 13: 9780253206817
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1992

Synopsis

". . . 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

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review

"[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 "... a valuable and important book ..." -- The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

Synopsis

"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".

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253206812
ISBN 13 
9780253206817
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
336