- For other men named Bill Nichols, see Bill Nichols (disambiguation).
Bill Nichols is an American historian and theoretician of documentary film. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality His study Representing Reality. Issues and Concepts in Documentary covers the theory of documentary film, a topic neglected by mainstream film theory. Film theory debates the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to Reality, the other Arts individual 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 (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public University
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
See also
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