Poetics of Cinema

By David Bordwell

List Price: $45.00

Add to Cart

Bio

David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Professor at the University of Wisconsin, is arguably the most influential scholar of film in the United States. The author, with his wife Kristin Thompson, of the standard textbook Film Art and a series of influential studies of directors (Eisenstein, Ozu, Dreyer) as well as periods and styles (Hong Kong cinema, Classical Hollywood cinema, among others), he has also trained a generation of professors of cinema studies, extending his influence throughout the world. His books have been translated into fifteen languages.
You may also be interested in:

Off-Centre

Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury, Jackie Stacey

This anthology of new work is the first since Women Take Issue to bring together feminist theory and cultural studies. Continuing the tradition of collective...

Published 09/26/1991 | 978-0-04-445667-4

more information about Off-Centre

Television

Richard Collins

In this important and wide-ranging text, Richard Collins combines original research with provocative analysis and argument. He focuses on the impact of new television technologies,...

Published 10/11/1990 | 978-0-04-445765-7

more information about Television

Poetics of Cinema

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...

Published 10/26/2007 | 978-0-415-97778-4

more information about Poetics of Cinema