Poetics of Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780415977791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 512 str.

David Bordwell

Opis

Presents an analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? This book shows how films channel and recast cultural influences for their cinematic purposes.

Spis treści

Introduction Questions of Theory 1. Poetics of Cinema 2. Convention, Construction, and Cinematic Vision Studies in Narrative 3. Three Dimensions of Film Narrative 4. Cognition and Comprehension: Viewing and Forgetting in Mildred Pierce 5. The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice 6. Film Futures 7. Mutual Friends and Chronologies of Chance Studies in Style 8. Cinecerity 9. Taking Things to Extremes: Hallucinations Courtesy of Robert Reinert 10. CinemaScope, The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses 11. Who Blinked First? 12. Visual Style in Japanese Cinema, 1925-1945 13. A Cinema of Flourishes 14. Aesthetics in Action: Kung Fu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expression 15. Richness through Imperfection: King Hu and the Glimpse

O autorze

David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Professor at the University of Wisconsin, is arguably the most influential scholar of film in the United States. 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 trained a generation of professors of cinema studies, extending his influence throughout the world. His books have been translated into fifteen languages.