Introduction to Documentary by Bill Nichols

Introduction to Documentary by Bill Nichols

"This engaging, thoughtful, accessible, and comprehensive work will stimulate many to teach documentary film" —Choice

"Bill Nichols' work is always original, provocative, and deeply rooted in his understanding of what we're trying to do.... Introduction to Documentary is loaded with original clear thinking and precise attention to the actual mechanics of documentary making and documentary functioning in the real world.... Bravo." —Jon Else, University of California at Berkeley and producer and director of The Day After Trinity and Sing Faster

Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University and author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary (IUP, 1992) and Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture (IUP, 1995).