Bill Nichols
Encyclopedia
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 has 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
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Editor
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
. His study Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary covers the theory of documentary film, a topic neglected by mainstream film theory
Film theory
Film theory is an academic discipline that aims to explore the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large...
. He has 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
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
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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, 1981. ISBN 9780253182876
- Blurred boundaries: questions of meaning in contemporary culture, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1994. ISBN 9780253209009
- Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN 9780253206817
- Introduction to documentary, Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780253339546
Editor
- Movies and Methods: An Anthology, University of California Press, 1985. ISBN 9780520054097
- Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, University of California Press, 2001. ISBN 9780520227323