Representing Reality
Issues and Concepts in Documentary
Published on 31. December 1991
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-253-34060-3 (ISBN)
Description
"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.
Reviews / Votes
"[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 TheoryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3ill.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-34060-3 (9780253340603)
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E-Book
02/1992
Indiana University Press
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