Bill Nichols
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Bill Nichols is an American historian and theoretician of documentary film. His study Representing Reality. Issues and Concepts in Documentary covers the theory of documentary film, a topic neglected by mainstream film theory.
He edited the two-volume anthology Movies and Methods which helped to define film studies. Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema and Director of the Graduate Program in Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University.
[edit] Writings
Author
- Newsreel : documentary filmmaking on the American left, New York : Arno Press, 1980
- Ideology and the image : social representation in the cinema and other media, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1981.
- Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture,
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.
- Representing Reality. Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991
- Introduction to documentary, Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2001.
Editor
- Movies and Methods, University of California Press, 1976-1985
- Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, University of California Press, 2001
[edit] See also
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