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1. Poetics of Cinema

   By David Bordwell

   Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are...

   Published October 18th 2007 by Routledge
2. The Cinema of Eisenstein

   By David Bordwell

   The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented...

   Published May 1st 2005 by Routledge
3. Narration in the Fiction Film

   By David Bordwell

   Published February 4th 1987 by Routledge