Bill Nichols
American historian
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Bill Nichols is an American film critic and theoretician known for founding the contemporary study of documentary film. His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time. It was followed by additional books and essays. The first of his two-volume anthology Movies and Methods helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline.
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