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Probes the question of the relationship of aesthetics and ideology

Reviews

"Nichols employs current theories of narrative ... in a wide-ranging exploration of the various codes of cinematic representation... His work with the structure of documentary and ethnographic film is ... innovative." Library Journal "What makes this book so interesting is the care given to explaining theoretical principles... [Nichols's] textual analyses are useful models not only for film criticism, but for a more broadly contextual analysis of the relationship between art and ideology." Afterimage