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Speaking Truths with Film

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Speaking Truths with Film

By Bill Nichols

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About the book

How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world we live in? In what ways do documentaries abide by or subvert ethical expectations? Are mockumentaries a form of subversion? Can the documentary be an aesthetic experience and at the same time have political or social impact? And how can such impacts be empirically measured[unk] Pioneering film scholar Bill Nichols investigates the ways docume...Show more

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9780520290402

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2016

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