Offers a comprehensive survey of film - from the backlots of Hollywood across the United States and around the world. As in the authors Film Art the concepts and events in this title are illustrated with frame enlargements aiming to give students realistic points... Lees meer.

Written by two leading film scholars Film History. An Introduction is a comprehensive survey of film - from the backlots of Hollywood across the United States and around the world. As in the authors bestselling Film Art concepts and events are illustrated with ac... Lees meer.

This text-specific tutorial CD-ROM helps to clarify and reinforce specific concepts addressed in the text through the use of film clips 1-2 per chapter a corresponding commentary for each film clip and a quiz for students to take to test their understanding of the ma... Lees meer.

Since the 1970s Hong Kong has been home to arguably the world s most energetic imaginative mass-market film industry. at its peak it surpassed nearly all western countries in number of films released ruled th e east Asian market and produced movies ranging from Joh... Lees meer.

David Bordwell s new book is at once a history of film criticism an analysis of how critics interpret film and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. David Bordwell... Lees meer.

Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s. A dense challenging and important book.... Lees meer.

An examination of Sergei Eisenstein s distictive contributions to filmmaking and film theory. It provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the range of Eisenstein s achievements in cinema. The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell s comprehensive analysis... Lees meer.

Nominated 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical biographical Mystery Writers of America Shortlisted 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction Malice Domestic Posthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize International Crime Fiction Association N... Lees meer.

Authors Les Sussman and Sally Bordwell went into prisons throughout the United States to learn what makes men rape. These chilling in-depth interviews into the minds of 15 sexual offenders make for compelling reading and help us to understand what is behind the horrif... Lees meer.

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own and since 1979 David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson s Film Art has been the most repected introduction to the art and analysis of cinema. In the new seventh edition Film Art continues its commitment to pr... Lees meer.

Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios. David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well even in today s bloated... Lees meer.

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Commentaries about the making of the film accompany the complete screenplay of the martial arts drama set in ancient China.... Lees meer.

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 effe... Lees meer.

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