Film Art: An Introduction - Softcover

Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007112943X ISBN 13: 9780071129435

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions), 1993

Synopsis

This edition is a revision of an introduction to film production. It moves on to a consideration of the formal elements together and highlights the key moments in film history. It has been updated to include analysis of films in recent years, including "Raging Bull" and "Desperately Seeking Susan".

About this title

About the Author:

David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Iowa. He is the author of The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (University California Press, 1981), Narration in the Fiction Film (University Wisconsin Press, 1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (British Film Institute/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) and Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000). He has won a University Distinguished Teaching Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 007112943X
• ISBN 13: 9780071129435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 512