Poetics of Cinema
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415977797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
All this exemplifies "rational and empirical enquiry" (3). I have learned a great deal from David about film narrative, and in Poetics of Cinema, he carries his mission further, drawing on a lifetime's perspective to lay out some universal truths."James Mangold, Director of 3:10 to Yuma, Walk the Line, and Cop Land"Is there anyone who writes about the movies with more intelligence, clarity, and style than David Bordwell? With an awesome depth of knowledge, he conveys a deep love of his subject. By weaving the past essays into a coherent structure with new work, the boo
. 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 pe
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. 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.
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 . "Another wonderful book!" according to Lázaro Manuel Silva. It's always a pleasure to learn from this Master os Arts.Lázaro SilvaTerceira, AzoresPortugal. Table of Contents IntroductionQuestions of Theory1. Poetics of Cinema2. Convention, Construction, and Cinematic VisionStudies in Narrative3. Three Dimensions of Film NarrativeTable 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. . 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