David Bordwell - Film Art: An Introduction

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FILM ART

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Emeritus Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of WisconsinMadison. He also holds a Hilldale Professorship in the Humanities. He completed a masters degree and a doctorate in film at 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; 2nd ed., Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011), 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), Poetics of Cinema (Routledge, 2007), Pandoras Digital Box: Films, Files, and the Future of Movies (Irvington Way Institute Press, 2012), The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow at the University of WisconsinMadison. She holds a masters degree in film from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in film from the University of WisconsinMadison. She has published Eisensteins Ivan the Terrible: A Neoformalist Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1981), Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market 19071934 (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 is also an amateur Egyptologist and since 2001 a member of an expedition to Egypt.

Bordwell and Thompson have previously collaborated on Film History: An Introduction (McGraw-Hill, 4th ed., 2018), Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Christopher Nolan: A Labyrinth of Linkages (Irvington Way Institute Press, 2013), and, with Janet Staiger, on The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (Columbia University Press, 1985). For their blog and other online information, visit www.davidbordwell.net.

Jeff Smith is a professor in the Communication Arts Department at the University of WisconsinMadison. He received his masters degree and doctorate in film at that same institution. He is the author of two books: The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music (Columbia University Press, 1998) and Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds (University of California Press, 2014).

All three authors regularly contribute video introductions to films on the Criterion Channel of FilmStruck.

To our parents,

Marjorie and Jay Bordwell

Jean and Roger Thompson

Virginia and Rod Smith

and Anne and John Ceranski

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PREFACE

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