Poetics of Cinema
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415977797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Poetics of Cinema Bordwell explains how movies can transcend, inspire, and become sublime. He gives close attention to the subtle details of film style, such as camera framings and the choreographed movements of actors. We rarely see our processes, collaborations, technologies, obsessions, or underlying motivations thoughtfully examined in such writings. Whether examining Hollywood cinema, Hong Kong, Independent, New Wave, silent or sound, high grossing or unknown, he addresses film with a clear mission -- to understand how a film works, how it's made and why -- and to discuss his findings in a direct style that embraces intellectuals and non-academic readers too. I have learned a great deal from David about film narrative, and in Poetics of Ci
David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Professor at the University of Wisconsin, is arguably the most influential scholar of film in the United States. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. The author, with his wife Kristin Thompson, of the standard textbook Film Art and a series of influential studies of directors (Eisenstein, Ozu, Dreyer) as well as periods and styles (Hong Kong cinema, Classical Hollywood cinema, among others), he has also tra
Beginning with this central thesis, Bordwell works out a full understanding of how films channel and recast cultural influences for their cinematic purposes. With more than five hundred film stills, Poetics of Cinema is a must-have for any student 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 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
A Challenging Work of Film Scholarship Tony Williams I will begin my review by mentioning the most basic problem with this book, namely it's price that may prevent it obtaining the wider circulation that it deserves. However, as the author has stated on several occasions, writers, especially those of academic texts, usually have no control concerning the prices publishers charge for their works. Hopefully, this collection of new and past essays may be available in a much more accessible form some time in the future but until then many of us must be content by obtaining it via libraries.Having said this, I will now begin by saying that this collection repres. Lázaro Manuel Silva said Another wonderful book!. It's always a pleasure to learn from this Master os Arts.Lázaro SilvaTerceira, AzoresPortugal. Table of Contents Curupira IntroductionQuestions of Theory1. Poetics of Cinema2. Convention, Construction, and Cinematic VisionStudies in Narrative3. Three Dimensions of Film Narrative4. Cognition and Comprehension: Viewing and Forgetting in Mildred Pierce5. The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice6. Film Futures7. Mutual Friends and Chronologies of ChanceStudies in Style8. Cinecerity9. Taking Things to Extremes: Hallucinations Courtesy of Robert Reinert10. CinemaScope, The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses11. Who Blinked First?12. Visual Style in Japanese Cinema, 1925-194513. A Cinema of Flourishes14. Aesthetics in Action: K