Film Viewer's Guide - Softcover

Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072388242 ISBN 13: 9780072388244

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

Packaged free with each copy of Film Art, this new guide by David Bordwell explains how to analyze and write about films.

About this title

About the Author:

David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He  holds a master's degree and a doctorate in film from the University of Iowa.  His books include The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (University of California Press, 1981), Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (Princeton University Press, 1988), Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (Harvard University Press, 1989), The Cinema of Eisenstein (Harvard University Press, 1993), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging (University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (University of California Press, 2006), and The Poetics of Cinema (Routledge, 2008).  He has won a University Distinguished Teaching Award and was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Copenhagen.  His we site is www.davidbordwell.net.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072388242
• ISBN 13: 9780072388244
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 40