'This book is of crucial importance to film specialists. I cannot think that any film teacher/scholar would miss reading this work.' - Don Fredricksen, Cornell University '
Narration in the Fiction Film is an excellent study of issues in the analysis of narrative and a major contribution to work on analysing film narratives. His studies of particular films in this respect are exemplery and illuminating.' - Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent
David 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.