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Film Art: An Introduction with Tutorial CD-ROM Paperback – 16 December 2006

by David Bordwell (Author), Kristin Thompson (Author)
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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 best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be more classroom friendly by introducing film techniques earlier in the text, followed by the chapters on Film Genres. Supported by a text-specific Tutorial CD-ROM with video clips, Film Art is automatically packaged with this outstanding student learning tool.
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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.

Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She holds a masters 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.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0073310271
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill Professional; 8th edition (16 December 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780073310275
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0073310275
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm
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Crysta Perak
4.0 out of 5 stars great quality book
Reviewed in Canada on 16 April 2018
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Package said cd-rom was included, but did not receive it. Otherwise, great quality book.
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dalroth5
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for Film Studies
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 March 2016
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This book is absolutely required reading for any serious student of cinema. From the business end to technicalities of production such as style, editing and details of mise en scène, it's all here with wonderful examples from many eras and
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wzlop
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in France on 21 February 2013
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C'est une bonne introduction au cinéma. surtout le sous chapitre du son dans le cinéma, qui est un bon complément des théorie du son dans le cinéma de Claudia Gorbman ou de Michel Chion.
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Batty
5.0 out of 5 stars For Film Buffs!
Reviewed in the United States on 9 October 2009
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This book goes through the basics into the intermediate stages of understanding film. The pages are bright and the text is very interesting. I read most of this textbook for fun. The specific reference films are good ones so you won't mind watching them(which I highly suggest anyway). The pacing is great and the topics covered include film art and how to understand what you're watching as well as some technical aspects. I learned quite a bit in the 1st chapter alone - this is what a textbook should be like!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Money back
Reviewed in the United States on 14 July 2010
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I orderd Film Art: An Introduction with Tutorial CD-ROM here at amazon earlier this summer. Tree weeks later, as agread upon, I got the book in the mail. It looked shabby and I did not get the tutorial cd. On the cover it says nothing about a tutorial cd, but the second last page is ripped out. I told the seller that they must have sendt me the wrong book, and a used one. They apologiced and refunded all my expences. Its sad that I didnt get the cd, but I got a book for free and that is good service.
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