Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture

by Bill Nichols

Book Overview

Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253209005
• ISBN13: 9780253209009
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"