Film Art: An Introduction with Tutorial CD-ROM by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Bordwell David
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- Sales Rank: 29,785
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- ISBN-13: 9780073310275
- Edition Description: REV
- Edition Number: 8
- Pub. Date: November 2006
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2006
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 576pp
- Sales Rank: 29,785
- ISBN-13: 9780073310275
- ISBN: 0073310271
- Edition Number: 8
- Edition Description: REV
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 best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema.
While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be more classroom friendly by introducing film techniques earlier in the text, followed by the chapters on Film Genres. Supported by a text-specific Tutorial CD-ROM with video clips, Film Art is automatically packaged with this outstanding student learning tool.
Biography
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.
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 (Princeton University Press, 1981), Exporting Entertainment: America's Place in World Film Markets, 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. Heinman, 1992), Storytelling in the New Hollywood (Harvard University Press, 1999), Storytelling in Film and Television (Harvard University Press, 2003), and Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film after World War I (University of Amsterdam, 2005). In her spare timeshe studies Egyptology.
The authors have collaborated on Film History (McGraw-Hill, 1994) with Janet Staiger, on The Classical Hollywood Cinema (Columbia University Press, 1985) and Storytelling in the New Hollywood (Harvard University Press, 1999).
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December 13, 2007: Film Art, which really does get better from one edition to the next, is nevertheless readable and useful in every edition. If you live in a university town with film courses and with 2nd hand bookstores, you'll likely find editions from the first to this one on sale at one point or another. Bordwell wrote the definitive text on Narrative in Film as well. Film Art, lavishly and intelligently illustrated, takes you through all the aspects of film making, from the basic to the profound. I've picked up both the 2nd and 7th editions and the improvement in the 7th is remarkable. Not always the case with books primarily used as texts in courses. Many of the points made in the text are illustrated, as well they should be in a book about film art. Use some film, heck, yeah. This is a text, though. It's not the easyglide reading of a popular book on film. It's meant to impart a thorough understanding of film from camera angles to plotting.
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