| About the book | |
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 most respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While continuing to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the seventh edition has been extensively re-designed in full color greatly enhancing the text's visual appeal and overall accessibility to today's students. Throughout the text, all images presented are frame enlargements as opposed to production stills or advertising photos. Supported by an Instructor's Manual and text-specific website, Film Art can be packaged with the award-winning Film, Form, and Culture CD-ROM. | |
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| About the author | |
Kristin Thompson 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 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 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. David Bordwell 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 The 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 we site is www.davidbordwell.net. | |
| Table of contents | |
Part One: Film Production, Distribution, and Exhibition Chapter One ? Film Production, Distribution, and Exhibition Mechanics of the Movies Bringing the Film to the Spectator Independent Production and Mainstream Hollywood: The Case of Good Machine Making the Movie: Film Production Modes of Production Notes and Queries Part Two: Film Form Chapter Two ? The Significance of Film Form The Concept of Form in Film Principles of Film Form Summary Notes and Queries Chapter Three ? Narrative as a Formal System Principles of Narrative Construction Playing Games with Story Time Narration: The Flow of Story Information The Classical Hollywood Cinema Narrative Form in Citizen Kane Summary Notes and Queries Part Three: Types of Films Chapter Four ? Film Genres Understanding Genre Three Genres A Contemporary Genre: The Crime Thriller Summary Notes and Queries Chapter Five ? Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Films Documentary Experimental Film The Animated Film Summary Notes and Queries Part Four: Film Style Chapter Six ? The Shot: Mise-en-Scene What is Mise-en-Scene Realism The Film Actor?s Tool Kit The Power of Mise-en-Scene Aspects of Mise-en-Scene Putting It All Together: Mise-en-Scene in Space and Time Narrative Function of Mise-en-Scene: Our Hospitality Summary Notes and Queries Chapter Seven ? The Shot: Cinematography The Photographic Image From Monsters to the Mundane: Computer-generated Imagery in The Lord of the Rings Framing Duration of the Image: The Long Take Summary Notes and Queries Chapter Eight ? The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing What Editing Is Dimensions of Film Editing Continuity Editing Intensified Continuity: L.A. Confidential and Contemporary Editing Alternatives to Continuity Editing Notes and Queries Chapter Nine ? Sound in the Cinema The Powers of Sound Rhythm on Two Tracks: A Dance of Death in The Last of the Mohicans Fundamentals of Film Sound Dimensions of Film Sound Functions of Film Sound: A Man Escaped Summary Notes and Queries Chapter Ten ? Style as a Formal System The Concept of Style Analyzing Film Style Style in Citizen Kane Style in Gap-Toothed Women Style in The River Style in Ballet Mecanique Style in A Movie Notes and Queries Part Five: Critical Analysis of Films Chapter Eleven ? Film Criticism: Sample Analyses The Classical Narrative Cinema Narrative Alternatives to Classical Filmaking Documentary Form and Style Form, Style, and Ideology Notes and Queries Part Six: Film History Chapter Twelve - Film Form and Film History Early Cinema (1893-1903) The Development of the Classical Hollywood Cinema (1908-1927) German Expressionism (1919-1926) French Impressionism and Surrealism (1918-1930) Soviet Montage (1924-1930) The Classical Hollywood Cinema after the Coming of Sound Italian Neorealism (1942-1951) The French New Wave (1959-1964) The New Hollywood and Independent Filmmaking Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema Bibliography for Chapter Twelve Glossary Internet Resources: Selected Reference Sites in Film from the World Wide Web Credits Index | |
