Bill Nichols received the 2022 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for his outstanding contributions to the field of film studies. He is a professor emeritus of cinema at San Francisco State University and has taught at several universities in the United States and abroad. Nichols has published a dozen books, written well over 150 articles, and lectured widely on six continents. His edited two-volume work Movies and Methods helped establish film studies as an academic discipline. Representing Reality launched the contemporary study of documentary film, and Introduction to Documentary is a landmark book that has been translated into numerous languages. Nichols has served as a consultant to different film organizations and also as a chair of film festival juries from Shanghai to São Paulo.

• To the Instructor (and the curious student)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Some Basic Issues and ConceptsPART I. THE FORMAL CONTEXTChapter 1. Film as a LanguageChapter 2. Forms of Cinematic Engagement and the Avant-Garde FilmChapter 3. Documentary FilmChapter 4. Story Telling and Narrative Fiction FilmPART II. THE SOCIAL CONTEXT FOR THE STUDY OF FILMChapter 5. Three Fundamental Styles: Realism, Modernism, and PostmodernismChapter 6. The Institutional and National Contexts: Hollywood and BeyondChapter 7. Genre FilmsChapter 8. Ideology and the CinemaChapter 9. Race and Ethnicity in FilmChapter 10. Gender and MasculinityChapter 11. Feminism and FilmPart III. THE VIEWER RESPONDS: DOING RESEARCH AND RESPONDING TO FILMSChapter 12. Writing and Speaking about FilmFURTHER READINGGLOSSARYINDEX

Bill Nichols received the 2022 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for his outstanding contributions to the field of film studies. He is a professor emeritus of cinema at San Francisco State University and has taught at several universities in the United States and abroad. Nichols has published a dozen books, written well over 150 articles, and lectured widely on six continents. His edited two-volume work Movies and Methods helped establish film studies as an academic discipline. Representing Reality launched the contemporary study of documentary film, and Introduction to Documentary is a landmark book that has been translated into numerous languages. Nichols has served as a consultant to different film organizations and also as a chair of film festival juries from Shanghai to São Paulo.

• To the Instructor (and the curious student)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Some Basic Issues and ConceptsPART I. THE FORMAL CONTEXTChapter 1. Film as a LanguageChapter 2. Forms of Cinematic Engagement and the Avant-Garde FilmChapter 3. Documentary FilmChapter 4. Story Telling and Narrative Fiction FilmPART II. THE SOCIAL CONTEXT FOR THE STUDY OF FILMChapter 5. Three Fundamental Styles: Realism, Modernism, and PostmodernismChapter 6. The Institutional and National Contexts: Hollywood and BeyondChapter 7. Genre FilmsChapter 8. Ideology and the CinemaChapter 9. Race and Ethnicity in FilmChapter 10. Gender and MasculinityChapter 11. Feminism and FilmPart III. THE VIEWER RESPONDS: DOING RESEARCH AND RESPONDING TO FILMSChapter 12. Writing and Speaking about FilmFURTHER READINGGLOSSARYINDEX

Bill Nichols received the 2022 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for his outstanding contributions to the field of film studies. He is a professor emeritus of cinema at San Francisco State University and has taught at several universities in the United States and abroad. Nichols has published a dozen books, written well over 150 articles, and lectured widely on six continents. His edited two-volume work Movies and Methods helped establish film studies as an academic discipline. Representing Reality launched the contemporary study of documentary film, and Introduction to Documentary is a landmark book that has been translated into numerous languages. Nichols has served as a consultant to different film organizations and also as a chair of film festival juries from Shanghai to São Paulo.

• To the Instructor (and the curious student)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Some Basic Issues and ConceptsPART I. THE FORMAL CONTEXTChapter 1. Film as a LanguageChapter 2. Forms of Cinematic Engagement and the Avant-Garde FilmChapter 3. Documentary FilmChapter 4. Story Telling and Narrative Fiction FilmPART II. THE SOCIAL CONTEXT FOR THE STUDY OF FILMChapter 5. Three Fundamental Styles: Realism, Modernism, and PostmodernismChapter 6. The Institutional and National Contexts: Hollywood and BeyondChapter 7. Genre FilmsChapter 8. Ideology and the CinemaChapter 9. Race and Ethnicity in FilmChapter 10. Gender and MasculinityChapter 11. Feminism and FilmPart III. THE VIEWER RESPONDS: DOING RESEARCH AND RESPONDING TO FILMSChapter 12. Writing and Speaking about FilmFURTHER READINGGLOSSARYINDEX