Beyond and Beside Narrative (Discussion)

Bill Nichols' terms

All groups:

Explain film scholar Bill Nichols' sense of the following terms:

• historical world or historical reality
  • Why does he prefer this term to "reality"?
• social actor
  • Why does he prefer this term to "individuals" or, simply, "people" in non-narrative works?

Bibliography

1. Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.