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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. This title provides an introduction to the fundamentals of film study. Intended for students, it features images and is supported by a text-specific CD-ROM with video clips, an Instructor's Manual, and text-specific website.

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PublisherMcgraw-Hill Education, McGraw-Hill Higher Education

ISBN-100071101594

ISBN-139780071101592

eBay Product ID (ePID)89546022

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AuthorDavid Bordwell, Kristin Thompson

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicThe Arts

GenreFilm, TV & Radio

Dimensions

Weight1120g

Height274mm

Width215mm

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Place of PublicationLondon

Spine18mm

Content NoteCol. Ill

Author BiographyDavid Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Iowa. He is the author of The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (University California Press, 1981), Narration in the Fiction Film (University Wisconsin Press, 1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (British Film Institute/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) and Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000). He has won a University Distinguished Teaching Award. Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She holds a master's 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 (Princeton University Press, 1981), Exporting Entertainment: America's Place in World Film Markets, 1907-1934 (British Film Institute, 1985), Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Princeton University Press, 1988), and Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes; or Le Mot Juste (James H. Heinman, 1992). In her spare time she studies Egyptology. The authors have collaborated on Film History (McGraw-Hill, 1994) with Janet Staiger, on The Classical Hollywood Cinema (Columbia University Press, 1985) and Storytelling in the New Hollywood (Harvard University Press, 1999)

Out-Of-Print Date17/07/2007

Date of Publication01/12/2006

Edition Statement8th Revised Edition

Country of PublicationUnited States