Film Art: An Introduction and Film Viewers Guide - Softcover

Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072878800 ISBN 13: 9780072878806

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Synopsis

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the most respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While continuing to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the seventh edition has been extensively re-designed in full color greatly enhancing the text's visual appeal and overall accessibility to today's students. Throughout the text, all images presented are frame enlargements as opposed to production stills or advertising photos. Supported by an Instructor's Manual and text-specific website, Film Art can be packaged with the award-winning Film, Form, and Culture CD-ROM.

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.

Synopsis:

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all of it's own, and since 1979 David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's "Film Art" has been the most repeated introduction to the art and analysis of cinema. In the new seventh edition, "Film Art" continues it's commitment to providing the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study. Images throughout the book are collected from actual film frames, not from production stills or advertising photos. This book has been extensively re-designed to improve readability and teachability. Additionally, the text can be packaged with the award-winning "Film, Form, and Culture CD-ROM", and is supported by an extensive instructor's manual and text-specific website.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072878800
• ISBN 13: 9780072878806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480