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Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition

Bill Nichols Jaimie Baron

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English
Indiana University Press
06 August 2024
The fourth edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides new critical material on reenactments, encounter, and testimony or bearing witness. Introduction to Documentary is designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies. It 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 ""How Have Documentaries Responded to Identity Politics and Social Issues?"" Here Nichols, with Jaimie Baron, has edited each chapter for clarity and ease of use and expanded the book with updates and new ideas.
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Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Fourth Edition
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 178mm, 
Weight:   522g
ISBN:   9780253070159
ISBN 10:   0253070155
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Bill Nichols is Professor Emeritus of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary; Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture; Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies; and Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary. He is also editor of Movies and Methods, Volumes I and II.Jaimie Baron is Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era as well as many journal articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews. She is founder and director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found-footage films and videos. She is also a cofounder and coeditor of Docalogue, an online space for scholars and filmmakers to engage in conversations about contemporary documentary, and the Docalogue book series. She is a 2022–23 recipient of a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship.

Reviews for Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition

""Since its first edition in 2001, Bill Nichols' Introduction to Documentary is the leading textbook on nonfictional cinema. Not exactly a how-to-do guide, a history of documentaries, or an assessment of the specific ethical and aesthetic issues of this production, Nichols's book became an instant classic discussing all of this with clarity and originality for the beginner and the academic, the filmmaker and the viewer. Each part organically updated with new questions and filmic variations, its fourth edition, co-written with Jaimie Baron, offers an even more complex and current approach to the essential book that has been guiding us through the mist of documentary film.""—Amir Labaki, author of Introduction to Brazilian Documentary ""In Introduction to Documentary, Bill Nichols created the first comprehensive taxonomy of documentary film form—one that has given generations of students and scholars a critical language with which they can critically analyze and understand the many complex forms of documentary film. This fourth edition, now joined by scholar Jaimie Baron, uses the latest films from mainstream to the avant-garde to analyze ever-evolving documentary film practices in relation to recent theoretical debates including relationships between fact and fiction, the ethics of representation, point of view, new technologies, and hybrid forms. Written with clarity and generosity, the volume is an essential resource for film and media students, scholars and filmmakers alike.""—Jeffrey Skoller, editor of Postwar: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg


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