ISE Film History: An Introduction - Softcover

Thompson, Kristin; Bordwell, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 126008485X ISBN 13: 9781260084856

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2018

Synopsis

Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction 4e is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. Concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic points of reference.

About this title

About the Author:

Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She holds a masters degree in film from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in film from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She has published Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible: A Neoformalist Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1981), Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market 1907-1934 (British Film Institute, 1985), Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1988), Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes, or, Le Mot Juste(James H. Heineman, 1992), Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (Harvard University Press, 1999), Storytelling in Film and Television (Harvard University Press, 2003), Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (Amsterdam University Press, 2005), and The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood (University of California Press, 2007).  She blogs with David at www.davidbordwell.net/blog.  She maintains her own blog, "The Frodo Franchise," at www.kristinthompson.net/blog.  In her spare time she studies Egyptology.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 126008485X
• ISBN 13: 9781260084856
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 802