Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary

..". a valuable and important book..." -- The Year's Work inCritical and Cultural Theory
Representing Reality is the firstbook to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice. It addressesnumerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique. The volume poses questions about the relationshipof the documentary tradition to power, the body, authority, knowledge, and ourexperience of history. This study advances the pioneering work of Nichols's earlierbook, Ideology and the Image.
"(Nichols) has written aroad-block of a book which reconfigures the debate on the documentary at a new levelof sophistication and complexity which can only be ignored at the risk of ignoringthe whole area of documentary film." -- Sight andSound
..". the most important book on documentary film yetpublished." -- Canadian Journal of Film Studies