defeat

documentary film

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

historian

is worse than death, because you have to live with defeat.

Defeat is worse than death, because you have to live with defeat.

is a discourse of sobriety, more about content, subject matter and information than form, style or pleasure.

Bill Nichols' definition of documentary film as a discourse of sobriety accurately expresses a hidden assumption at the core of the documentary genre, namely that documentary film is more about content, subject matter and information than form, style or pleasure.

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Bill Nichols