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  • The Rhapsodes

    How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

    by David Bordwell ...
    An engaging look at four pioneering film critics—"besides being a pleasure to read, [it] makes a sophisticated contribution to the study of film criticism" ( Cineaste).In the 1960s, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most popular and influential film critics. But their remarkable contributions to the cinema landscape were deeply influenced by the work of four ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perplexing Plots

    Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

    by David Bordwell ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of AmericaShortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice DomesticPosthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction AssociationNarrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple ... Read more

    $27.29 USD

  • Reinventing Hollywood

    How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

    by David Bordwell ...
    "An exhaustive, meticulous study of a decade when cinematic storytelling exploded with fresh creative options." — Noir City , Film Noir FoundationIn 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 the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way Hollywood Tells It

    Story and Style in Modern Movies

    by David Bordwell ...
    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 blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition—one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Classical Hollywood Cinema

    Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960

    by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson ...
    '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.' Paul Kerr City Limits'Persuasively argued, the book is also packed with facts, figures and photographs.' Nigel Andrews Financial TimesAcclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Stai... ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Poetics of Cinema

    by 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 question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Eisenstein

    by David Bordwell ...
    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,*Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of film epic. Comprehensive, authoritative, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Perplexing Plots

    Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

    by David Bordwell ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of AmericaShortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice DomesticPosthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction AssociationNarrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Making Meaning

    Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    Series Book 7 - Harvard Film Studies
    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. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve.Bordwell systematically maps different ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Way Hollywood Tells It, The

    Story and Style in Modern Movies

    by David Bordwell ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    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 blockbusters.American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Projections

    Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

    by Jared Gardner ...
    Series series Post*45
    When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the ... Read more

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  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

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