Name: Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition par Bill Nichols
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Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition Bill Nichols

The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, Introduction to Documentary identifies the genre's distinguishing qualities and teaches the viewer how to read documentary film. Each chapter takes up a discrete question, from "How did documentary filmmaking get started?" to "Why are ethical issues central to documentary filmmaking?" Here Nichols has fully rewritten each chapter for greater clarity and ease of use, including revised discussions of earlier films and new commentary on dozens of recent films from The Cove to The Act of Killing and from Gasland to Restrepo.

Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition Avis

This new edition of Introduction to Documentary is incisive and magisterial, a brilliantly organized and ambitious analysis of that enigmatic, open-ended, and vital are of cinema in which reality is not so much documented as transformed. Nichols addresses with ambition and humility all the key questions about what happens - ethically, aesthetically, and politically - when real people agree to play themselves, and collaborate with the filmmaker to transform their lives for the screen.

-- Joshua Oppenheimer * Director, Producer, Filmmaker *

Documentary film has never been more popular - nor creatively complex - and Bill Nichols's book gives a concise over-view of the genre while tackling the important ideas, issues, and conundrums that we as filmmakers all face.

-- Mark Lewis * Filmmaker *

À propos de Bill Nichols

Bill Nichols is Professor Emeritus of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary (IUP), Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture (IUP), and Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary.

Sommaire

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. How Can We Define Documentary Film?
2. Why Are Ethical Issues Central to Documentary Filmmaking?
3. What Gives Documentaries a Voice of Their Own?
4. What Makes Documentaries Engaging and Persuasive?
5. How Did Documentary Filmmaking Get Started?
6. How Can We Differentiate among Documentary Models and Modes? What Are the Poetic, Expository, and Reflexive Modes?
7. How Can We Describe the Observational, Participatory, and Performative Modes of Documentary Film?
8. How Have Documentaries Addressed Social and Political Issues?
9. How Can We Write Effectively about Documentary?
10. I Want to Make a Documentary. Where Do I Start?
Appendix A: Sample Film Project Proposal: Sex with Sam
Notes on Source Material
Index

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR011134080

ISBN 13

9780253026859

ISBN 10

0253026857

Titre

Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition Bill Nichols

Auteur

Bill Nichols

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Indiana University Press

Année de publication

2017-03-27

Nombre de pages

268

Prix

N/A

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