Representing Reality

Issues and Concepts in Documentary

By: Bill Nichols

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Paperback | 1 February 1992

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". . . a valuable and important book . . ." --The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

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.

" 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

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"[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 Theory

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Axes of Orientation
The Domain of Documentary	p. 3
Documentary Modes of Representation	p. 32
Axiographics: Ethical Space in Documentary Film	p. 76
Documentary: A Fiction (Un)Like Any Other
Telling Stories with Evidence and Arguments	p. 107
Sticking to Reality: Rhetoric and What Exceeds It	p. 134
The Fact of Realism and the Fiction of Objectivity	p. 165
Documentary Representation and the Historical World
Pornography, Ethnography, and the Discourses of Power	p. 201
Representing the Body: Questions of Meaning and Magnitude	p. 229
Notes	p. 267
Filmography	p. 297
Distributors	p. 305
Index	p. 309
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Representing Reality

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