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Informationen zum Autor Bill Nichols Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
