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#1967

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Bill Nichols 's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, See also Bill Nichols . Bill Nichols is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film. His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time. It has been followed by scores of books by others and by additional books and essays by Nichols. The first volume of his two-volume anthology Movies and Methods helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline. Nichols is Professor Emeritus in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University and Chair of the Documentary Film Institute advisory board.

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Bill Nichols 's Published Works

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Introduction to documentary (2001) (1015)
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary (1992) (956)
Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture (1994) (339)
Representing Reality (1992) (305)
The Voice of Documentary (1983) (220)
Movies and Methods (1978) (169)
Ideology and the image : social representation in the cinema and other media (1983) (153)
Ideology and the image (1981) (118)
Documentary Reenactment and the Fantasmatic Subject (2008) (83)
Documentary Film and the Modernist Avant-Garde (2001) (82)
Discovering Form, Inferring Meaning: New Cinemas and the Film Festival Circuit (1994) (72)
What Really Happened (1996) (71)
Movies and methods : an anthology (1976) (66)
Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition (2017) (61)
The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems (1988) (43)
Introduction to Documentary, Second Edition (2010) (41)
The Ethnographer's Tale (1991) (41)
Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary film and video (2013) (38)
Flicker and Motion in Film (1980) (37)
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde (2001) (31)
Documentary Theory and Practice (1976) (27)
Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies (2010) (26)
The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film (2013) (25)
History, Myth, and Narrative in Documentary (1987) (20)
Fred Wiseman's Documentaries: Theory and Structure (1978) (19)
Irony, Cruelty, Evil (and a Wink) in The Act of Killing (2013) (16)
Cinema's Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács (2011) (14)
Movies and Methods, Volume II (1988) (14)
Style, Grammar, and the Movies (1975) (9)
The Memory of Loss (2003) (8)
Leni Riefenstahl: The Power of the Image (1996) (6)
Newsreel : documentary filmmaking on the American left. (1971-1975) (1978) (6)
Dislocating Ethnographic Film: In and Out of Africa and Issues of Cultural Representation (1997) (6)
The lived experience of UK health communication professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021) (4)
Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory (1989) (4)
: Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media . Ella Shohat, Robert Stam. (1996) (3)
Skin Flicks: Pornography, Ethnography, and the Discourse of Power (2013) (3)
What Current Documentaries Do and Can't Do (2007) (3)
Waltzing with Bashir: perpetrator trauma and cinema (2014) (3)
Awake in the Dark: An Anthology of American Film Criticism, 1915 to the Present@@@Movies and Methods (1977) (3)
Remaking History: Jay Leyda and the Compilation Film (2015) (2)
Current Research in Film: Audiences, Economics and Law (1988) (2)
Manifestos: A Forgotten History (2014) (2)
"American Gigolo": Transcendental Style and Narrative Form (1981) (2)
15 THE FACT OF REALISM AND THE FICTION OF OBJECTIVITY (2000) (2)
Three Books on: Film and Anthropology (1977) (1)
The Time of the Orator (2005) (1)
Review: Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board (2009) (1)
Three Books on: Film and Anthropology: Anthropology on Film: A Philosophy of People and Art . Robert Edmonds. ; Principles of Visual Anthropology . Paul Hockings. ; Ethnographic Film . Karl G. Heider. (1977) (1)
Report on the American Film Institute Education Services (1985) (1)
The Terrorist Event (2007) (1)
Image and reality: the real story (1996) (1)
IDFA: A Festival of Attractions (2016) (1)
The Hunters. 1958. Produced by the Film Study Center of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Written, directed, and photographed by John Marshall (1980) (1)
Two Laws: DVD release film commentary (2008) (1)
Seven Reasons Why I Love Submarine Movies (2009) (1)
Children, Art, Sex, Pornography: Jennifer Montgomery's Art for Teachers of Children (1996) (0)
Bill Nichols Replies (1984) (0)
Reply to "Statement to Administrators" (1992) (0)
Realer than Reel: Global Directions in Documentaryby David Hogarth . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006; 198 pp.; paperbound, $19.95. (2009) (0)
Making a Personal Difference: Communications in Healthcare (2019) (0)
Ethical Considerations: A Roundtable Discussion (2009) (0)
Ramparts of Clay . (1971) (0)
PART II. The Audio in Audiovisual (2019) (0)
Believing what we read, saying what we believe (1985) (0)
The Origin of Ideas: A Reply to Fabrice Ziolkowski (1983) (0)
What's Wrong with This Picture: A Reply to Bill Nichols (1983) (0)
: Nonfictional Film: Theory and Criticism . Richard Meran Barsam. (1977) (0)
: Samuel Fuller . David Will , Peter Wollen . ; Samuel Fuller . Phil Hardy . (1972) (0)
Review: Nonfictional Film: Theory and Criticism by Richard Meran Barsam (1977) (0)
2.On the Relationship of Art History and Art Theory': Translators' IntroductionOn the Relationship of Art History and Art Theory': Translators' Introduction (pp. 33-42) (2008) (0)
Review: Concepts in Film Theory by Dudley Andrew; Film in the Aura of Art by Dudley Andrew (1985) (0)
Review: Documenting Ourselves: Film, Video, and Culture by Sharon R. Sherman (1999) (0)
Review: Myth, Race and Power by Keyan Tomaselli, Alan Williams, Lynette Steenveld, Ruth Tomaselli; Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography by James Clifford, George E. Marcus (1988) (0)
Review: Creative Differences: Profiles of Hollywood Dissidents by Barbara Zheutlin, David Talbot (1980) (0)
PART I. Documentary Meets the Neighbors (2019) (0)
Review: Samuel Fuller by David Will, Peter Wollen; Samuel Fuller by Phil Hardy (1972) (0)
Kabul Transit edited by David Edwards, Gregory Whitmore, and Maliha Zulfacar (2010) (0)
The Documentary Film in America (1985) (0)
Review: Studying Visual Communication by Sol Worth, Larry Gross (1983) (0)
Review: Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam (1996) (0)
Review: A Cinema of Nonfiction by William Guynn (1991) (0)
Review: Ramparts of Clay (1971) (0)
Review: Anthropological Filmmaking by Jack R. Rollwagen (1992) (0)
Struggle in Italy . (1971) (0)
Review: Toward a Structural Psychology of Cinema by John M. Carroll (1982) (0)
PART IV. Ethics and Irony in Documentary (2019) (0)
Henderson on film theory: Another look (1983) (0)
Films: Four Families. 1959 (1981) (0)
Review: Struggle in Italy (1971) (0)
Poor standards of palliative care put us all to shame. (2010) (0)
The Work of Gulture in the of Cybernetic Systems Age (2022) (0)
Film and Society (1982) (0)
An uncle too many: Uncle Paavo as spectre from the past (2013) (0)
More on the funeral (1964) (0)
PART V. Politics and the Documentary Film (2019) (0)
: Creative Differences: Profiles of Hollywood Dissidents . Barbara Zheutlin, David Talbot. (1980) (0)
A Cinema of Nonfiction . William Guynn. (1991) (0)
Programing the American Feature Film. (1974) (0)
Cinema's Alchemist (2011) (0)
Toward a Structural Psychology of Cinema . John M. Carroll. (1982) (0)
Better Serving the Community through Public-Private Partnerships (2015) (0)
The Telefilm We Need / Peter Pearson prophet of profit (1986) (0)
: Concepts in Film Theory . Dudley Andrew. ; Film in the Aura of Art . Dudley Andrew. (1985) (0)
The American Photo League (1972) (0)
How to Comply with OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (2008) (0)
Anthropological Filmmaking . Jack R. Rollwagen. (1992) (0)
Scholars on the subject of media, politics and the academy (in 12 parts) (2008) (0)
Review: Rage by George C. Scott, Fred Weintraub (1973) (0)
In the beginning (2021) (0)

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