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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.
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.
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.
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