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Title: Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary by Bill Nichols ISBN: 0-253-20681-2 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: December, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Due Question for Documentary
Comment: Representing Reality theorizes documentary in all-round perspectives. Among others, I think this book is important especially in that it raises the question of reality per se. Documentary has always been marginal not only in discourse but also in cinema industry, under the poor understanding of reality. I think Nichols's notion of "reflexivity" is a key concept itself in understanding documentary, which also provides a good alternative reading regarding what is documentary or not. I think this book will give you a great deal of food for thought, when you have ever contemplated what is real and when we become to question about what we are seeing, not only in films but also in real life.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bill Nichols should not be allowed to write
Comment: Bill Nichols is full of words and empty of thought. You need a machete to slash through the tangled sentences in this book, and what you'll find beneath are simplistic, flawed ideas that aren't developed but buried under more verbiage. Nichols stitches suffixes and prefixes to ordinary nouns, creating monsters like "situatedness," "hyperrationality," "reconceptualization," "polyvocality," "relationality," "talismanic"(!), and the pseudo-literate's favorite word of all: "juxtaposition." Each of those words costs as much time to understand as a whole chapter of Erik Barnouw's book (which is succinct, informative and even humorous). Mr. Nichols should be sealed in a cave and his books slung into outer space, for they pollute the body of film knowledge. Don't buy "Representing Reality" unless you want to know how confused Mr. Nichols's reality is.
Rating: 4
Summary: great book for learning about doc. concepts and issues
Comment: the book has a lot of useful insights and info about doc. it is harder than the Barnouw book because it is less chatty but it is also rich in food for thought. It takes up things like ethics and documentary style, how different kinds of documentary are similar and different, and how the human body is a really important topic in documentary, pornography and anthropology.
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Title: Theorizing Documentary (Afi Film Reader) by Michael Renov ISBN: 0415903823 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film by Erik Barnouw ISBN: 0195078985 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Documentary: by Bill Nichols ISBN: 0253214696 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Collecting Visible Evidence by Jane Gaines, Michael Renov ISBN: 0816631360 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (Contemporary Film and Television Series) by Barry Keith Grant, Jeannette Sloniowski, Bill Nichols ISBN: 0814326390 Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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