Bill Nichols (2019)
Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University, a position he has held in 1987. Prior to that, he was a member of the Queen’s University Film Studies Department, where he was Acting Chair from 1976-8 and Chair from 1978-1985. He is a founder of 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 and helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline.


