Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols (1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film.
Works
- Newsreel: Documentary Filmmaking on the American Left, New York: Arno Press, 1980.
- Ideology and the Image: Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Media, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
- Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
- Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
- Introduction to Documentary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001, IA; 2nd edition, 2010, IA.
- Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
