Bill Nichols (Author of Introduction to Documentary)
Bill Nichols

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Bill Nichols



Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film. His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time. It has been followed by scores of books by others and by additional books and essays by Nichols. The first volume of his two-volume anthology Movies and Methods (1976, 1985) helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline.

Bill Nichols is Professor Emeritus in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University and Chair of the Documentary Film Institute advisory board.

Average rating: 3.8 · 1,383 ratings · 93 reviews · 23 distinct worksSimilar authors
Introduction to Documentary

3.76 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2001 — 28 editions
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Representing Reality: Issue...

3.79 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions
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Engaging Cinema: An Introdu...

3.71 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2010
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Movies and Methods, Volume 1

3.89 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions
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Movies and Methods: Vol. II

4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions
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Maya Deren and the American...

3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions
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Ideology and the Image: Soc...

3.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions
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Blurred Boundaries: Questio...

3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
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أفلام ومناهج: نصوص نقدية ون...

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3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1976
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ساخت‌گرایی، نشانه‌شناسی سینما

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3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999
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