David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies and Hilldale Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among his books are Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging (California, 2004), Film History: An Introduction (with Kristin Thompson, 2002), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (2000), and On the History of Film Style (1997).
18 Ebooks by David Bordwell
David Bordwell: The Way Hollywood Tells It
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 c …
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€24.99
David Bordwell & Janet Staiger: Classical Hollywood Cinema
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 s …
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€71.74
David Bordwell & Janet Staiger: Classical Hollywood Cinema
‘A dense, challenging and important book.’ Philip French Observer’At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we’re likely to get for a very long time. …
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€51.54
David Bordwell & Janet Staiger: Classical Hollywood Cinema
‘A dense, challenging and important book.’ Philip French Observer’At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we’re likely to get for a very long time. …
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€51.54
David Bordwell: Poetics of Cinema
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 a …
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€73.33
David Bordwell: Poetics of Cinema
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 a …
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€73.41
David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson: Minding Movies
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America’s preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn’t spent at least a few hours huddled with …
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€38.56
David Bordwell: Reinventing Hollywood
In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address th …
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€41.24
David Bordwell & Jeff Smith: Film Art ISE
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson and now, Co-Author, Jeff Smith’s Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely resp …
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€51.57
David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson: Film History: An Introduction ISE
This new edition of Film History has been revised to include recent films, new examples, and updated comprehensive overviews of the rise of streaming services as purveyors of cinematic content as wel …
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€51.58
David Bordwell: Cinema of Eisenstein
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 …
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€47.62
David Bordwell: Cinema of Eisenstein
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 …
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€47.59
David Bordwell: EBOOK: Film Art: An Introduction
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson’s Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the an …
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€44.97
David Bordwell: Perplexing Plots
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 W …
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€32.99
David Bordwell & Jeff Smith: Film Art: An Introduction ISE
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-cent …
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€46.27
David Bordwell: Making Meaning
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 criti …
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€66.63
Roger Ebert: Great Movies III
Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the intro …
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€28.37
Roger Ebert: Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert
For nearly half a century, Roger Ebert’s wide knowledge, keen judgment, prodigious energy, and sharp sense of humor made him America’s most renowned and beloved film critic. From Ebert’s Pulitzer Pri …
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€29.46
