Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary

by Bill Nichols

Book Overview

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? Pioneering film scholar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520290402
• ISBN13: 9780520290402
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"