Authors: David Bordwell,Kristin Thompson
NINTH EDITION
David Bordwell
Kristin Thompson
University of Wisconsin
Film Art: An Introduction
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Bordwell, David.
Film art : an introduction / David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-338616-4 (alk. paper)
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1. Motion pictures—Aesthetics. I. Thompson, Kristin, 1950– II. Title.
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To our parents
Marjorie and Jay Bordwell
and Jean and Roger Thompson
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
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 website is
www.davidbordwell.net
.
Kristin Thompson
is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a master’s 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 Holly wood: 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.
The authors have also collaborated on
Film History: An Introduction
(McGraw-Hill, 3rd. ed., 2010) and, with Janet Staiger, on
The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960
(Columbia University Press, 1985).
PART ONE • Film Art and Filmmaking
PART FIVE • Critical Analysis of Films
CONTENTS
PART ONE • Film Art and Filmmaking
CHAPTER 1
Film as Art: Creativity, Technology, and Business
Artistic Decisions in Filmmaking
To See into the Night: Artistic Decisions in the Making of
Collateral
Making the Movie: Film Production
A CLOSER LOOK:
Some Terms and Roles In Film Production
Bringing the Film to the Audience: Distribution and Exhibition