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 o...